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Increasing children’s participation in African transport planning: reflections on methodological issues in a child-centred research project

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dc.contributor.author Porter, Gina
dc.contributor.author Abane, Albert
dc.date.accessioned 2022-01-18T11:58:09Z
dc.date.available 2022-01-18T11:58:09Z
dc.date.issued 2014
dc.identifier.issn 23105496
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/7240
dc.description 23p:, ill. en_US
dc.description.abstract This paper examines the potential for applying child-centred research methodologies which involve children doing their own research (with adult facilitators) within a transport and mobility context in West Africa. Relatively little attention has been paid to the transport needs of the poor and powerless within African transport policy and planning: the specifics of children and young people’s transport and mobility needs are essentially unknown and unconsidered. Using evidence from a small pilot study in Ghana, we reflect on both the opportunities and the challenges of work in this field. Although the paper is focused on the specific issues raised by child-centred research, it raises broader questions regarding the potential for research partnerships with vulnerable groups and, more specifically, the challenges of developing more collaborative research processes within transport studies, where technical priorities still regularly triumph over social concerns en_US
dc.language.iso en en_US
dc.publisher University of Cape Coast en_US
dc.subject Child-centred research en_US
dc.subject Participation en_US
dc.subject Transport en_US
dc.subject Ghana en_US
dc.subject Africa en_US
dc.subject Methodology en_US
dc.title Increasing children’s participation in African transport planning: reflections on methodological issues in a child-centred research project en_US
dc.type Article en_US


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