What is it about?
This paper offers some practical considerations for people wanting to elicit feedback from children regarding non-government organisations' programs. It is aimed at staff working within non-government organisations; particularly those working in small and medium sized charities. Often workers avoid asking children what they think about a service due to fear of breaching ethical responsibilities. This paper aims to reassure charity workers by providing prompts for them to unpack ethical considerations before conducting feedback sessions.
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Why is it important?
It is important that ethical responsibilities to children are upheld by workers in non-government organisations. It is also important that children are allowed to express their opinions and shape the programs they are receiving to ensure they are relevant and useful. This paper seeks to encourage workers in non-government organisations to elicit more feedback from children and to think more proactively and deeply about ethics.
Perspectives
As a worker in a medium sized non-government organisation, I faced a number of anxieties surrounding evaluative consultations with children. I wanted to talk to them and gather their opinions to augment program design and delivery but I was concerned about ethics. After many months of research, deliberations, and practice, I now feel confident consulting with children and wanted to share my learnings to speed up the process for others in the same situation.
Dr Leanne M. Kelly
Deakin University
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This page is a summary of: Ethics and Evaluative Consultations with Children in Small to Mid-Sized Australian Non-Government Organisations, Evaluation Journal of Australasia, March 2017, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.1177/1035719x1701700102.
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