Researching Children's Experience: Approaches and Methods,

Sheila Greene Diane Hogan (eds) London, Sage Publications, 2005, pp. vii +284, ISBN 07619 7103 3, 37. 95 This book has two primary goals: to examine the theoretical and ethical issues that arise in researching children’s lives, and to provide examples of the methods social scientists have used to carry out research on children’s lives. The first third of the book, which is devoted to the first goal, contains several chapters which, among other things, make the case for the importance of researching children’s experience, by which is meant children’s subjective experience of their lives and, in the case of older children, their views of their lives. Readers who come to the book with a pre-existing interest in children and their experiences may find these chapters somewhat tedious, although they do provide a motivating rationale for the remainder of the book. This section of the book also contains a chapter on ethical issues to consider when undertaking research with children. Again, as with some of the preceding chapters, the material in this chapter will probably cover familiar ground for most readers.