Evaluation with Children

Comment by Kate Cross on November 24, 2011 at 2:49pm

We tried something similar, although not with very young children, where we worked with a Bristol based organisation called New Generation Documenters. The idea is that the children are given a skill, that of 'live documenting'. This is transferred via a series of training sessions with the children. Then they are given a clipboard, paper, pen and torch and they go to see a load of plays and 'live document' their responses, like a stream of consciousness, spotantenous; and what results is something that looks like a mind map. Not wholly successful, however. The consultatns didn't follow the process through thoroughly enough. Perhaps, they couldn't glean anything from the documentation. Documentation is something which 5x5x5=creativity has some robust methodology about. I shall encourage them to sign up to this Playground.

Comment by Vicky Cave on November 30, 2011 at 10:32am

Hi David

I have experience of working with young children to explore their ideas around different ideas and themes in order to develop hands-on exhibitions for them. I'd be very happy to have a conversation with you about this. I think that you can do things where children can feedback through different means (drawing, talking, playing) but that this does need to be mediated by adults but not necessarily on a one-to-one basis. Please do get in contact if you'd like to discuss further

Comment by Helene Hugel on January 21, 2012 at 1:30pm

This might be of interest?

Developing an age appropriate consultation methodology for
involving children under 5 years of age in decision making are available in the ‘WOW! This is Big’ publication.
The findings challenge thinking about young children’s abilities, raise awareness about children’s rights and
inspire change in the provision of services for all young children.
http://www.playtrain.org.uk/research/publications/

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