Childhood studies has spent a long time deconstructing “the child’s voice.”

But what has this attention to children’s “voices” meant we overlook?

Most child-centred research involves adult researchers, then children’s voices are produced through researcher-participant dialogue, meaning we need to critically attend to the normative adult researcher voice as part of interlocution in knowledge-production.

I suggest a new method, making comics with children, helps adult researchers to recognise what their voice is doing in the interaction – and how to speak in a different language with children.

Spray, Julie. 2024. “We Can Tell More Than One Story: Comic Making Locates Researcher and Children’s Voices in Co-Representing Childhoods in the COVID-19 Pandemic.” Journal of Childhood Studies 49 (1): 37–56. https://doi.org/10.18357/jcs21134

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