Draw and Tell
Qualitative Health Research http://qhr.sagepub.com Draw-and-Tell Conversations With Children About Fear
Martha Driessnack Qual Health Res 2006; 16; 1414 DOI: 10.1177/1049732306294127 The online version of this article can be found at: http://qhr.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/16/10/1414
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Draw-and-Tell Conversations With Children About Fear
Martha Driessnack
As the demand to include children in research increases, researchers are discovering that few methods exist that are specifically designed with children in mind. In this article, the author introduces the draw-and-tell conversation as a child-centered and child-directed approach to data collection and illustrates its use in a qualitative study of children’s fear experiences. Twenty-two children, ages 7 and 8 years, participated. Sequential mixed qualitative analyses suggest that children’s draw-and-tell conversations provide new insight into how children describe and experience fear and highlight the unique nature of information accessed when using this approach. Keywords: draw and tell; conversations; fear; children’s drawings; linguistic analysis; thematic analysis
Children are not here primarily for us. We are here primarily for them. —Max van Manen, 2002, p. 11
T
oday, there is a growing demand for
Martha Driessnack Qual Health Res 2006; 16; 1414 DOI: 10.1177/1049732306294127 The online version of this article can be found at: http://qhr.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/16/10/1414
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Draw-and-Tell Conversations With Children About Fear
Martha Driessnack
As the demand to include children in research increases, researchers are discovering that few methods exist that are specifically designed with children in mind. In this article, the author introduces the draw-and-tell conversation as a child-centered and child-directed approach to data collection and illustrates its use in a qualitative study of children’s fear experiences. Twenty-two children, ages 7 and 8 years, participated. Sequential mixed qualitative analyses suggest that children’s draw-and-tell conversations provide new insight into how children describe and experience fear and highlight the unique nature of information accessed when using this approach. Keywords: draw and tell; conversations; fear; children’s drawings; linguistic analysis; thematic analysis
Children are not here primarily for us. We are here primarily for them. —Max van Manen, 2002, p. 11
T
oday, there is a growing demand for
Citations: Downloaded from http://qhr.sagepub.com at UNIV NACIONAL DE COLOMBIA on July 10, 2008 © 2006 SAGE Publications. All rights reserved. Not for commercial use or unauthorized distribution. Downloaded from http://qhr.sagepub.com at UNIV NACIONAL DE COLOMBIA on July 10, 2008 © 2006 SAGE Publications. All rights reserved. Not for commercial use or unauthorized distribution. Downloaded from http://qhr.sagepub.com at UNIV NACIONAL DE COLOMBIA on July 10, 2008 © 2006 SAGE Publications. All rights reserved. Not for commercial use or unauthorized distribution. Downloaded from http://qhr.sagepub.com at UNIV NACIONAL DE COLOMBIA on July 10, 2008 © 2006 SAGE Publications. All rights reserved. Not for commercial use or unauthorized distribution. Downloaded from http://qhr.sagepub.com at UNIV NACIONAL DE COLOMBIA on July 10, 2008 © 2006 SAGE Publications. All rights reserved. Not for commercial use or unauthorized distribution. FINDINGS Translating an experience into a story is perhaps the most fundamental act of human understanding (McLaughlin & Tierney, 1993) Downloaded from http://qhr.sagepub.com at UNIV NACIONAL DE COLOMBIA on July 10, 2008 © 2006 SAGE Publications. All rights reserved. Not for commercial use or unauthorized distribution. between 6 and 8 years of age (McCabe & Peterson, 1990). I followed this with a thematic analysis of the narratives, as this approach is more typically used in the qualitative analysis of adult narratives. Each is presented individually. Downloaded from http://qhr.sagepub.com at UNIV NACIONAL DE COLOMBIA on July 10, 2008 © 2006 SAGE Publications. All rights reserved. Not for commercial use or unauthorized distribution.