The ‘(Extra)Ordinary Lives’ project was a participatory and ethnographic research project that sought to enable a small number of children and young people (aged 10 to 20) to generate their own multi-media identity projects. The focus was on the everyday lives of children and young people in public care. The project aimed to create a highly flexible and creative research environment that would enable the young participants to shape research encounters, express themselves through multiple means of communication and exercise control over the representations they generated (and chose to share) of their lives. It also adopted an ethnographic approach to record and explore the possibilities and challenges of enabling the active participation of young people in the research process.
(Extra)Ordinary Lives: Children’s Everyday Relationship Cultures in Public Care
- by Fiona Munro
