Giving Voice To Children's Voices: Practices And Problems, Pitfalls And Potentials?

Giving Voice to Children’s Voices: Practices and Problems, Pitfalls and Potentials, by Alison James gives an inside look on James’ exploration on the “lessons that the anthropological debates of the 1980s about writing culture might have for contemporary childhood research within anthropology and the social sciences more generally” (James, 261). James stresses that if the recognition of children as competent social actors in which the contemporary anthropological research begins, why is it that their voice is barely heard by people on the outside of their immediate society? James explains different themes that tie into the critical reflection of anthropological research on giving voice to children, such as the pitfall of their authenticity,
the problems of practice in contemporary childhood research, what exactly the children are communicating, and the relationship between the small voices of children and the big issues they endure.