Subjects, objects or participants' dilemmas of psychological research with children / Martin Woodhead and Dorothy Faulkner -- The child as a social actor in historical sources : problems of identification and interpretation / Harry Hendrick -- Macroanalysis of childhood / Jens Qvortrup -- Children as respondents : the challenge for quantitative methods / Jaqueline Scott -- Conversations with children : working with generational issues / Berry Mayall -- The development of participatory techniques : facilitating children's views about decisions which affect them / Claire O'Kane -- Childhood diversity and commonality : some methodological insights / Pia Christensen and Allison James -- Race, gender, and critical reflexivity in research with young children / Paul Connolly -- Research with children in war-affected areas / Mathijis Euwema, Donatien de Graaff, Ans de Jager and Brechjje Kalksma-Van Lith -- Critical omissions, how street children studies can address self-destructive agency / Roy Gigengak -- Disabled children, ethnography and unspoken understandings : the collaborative construction of diverse identities / John Davis, Nick Watson, and Sarah Cunningham-Burley -- Entering and observing in children's worlds : a reflection on a longitudinal ethnography of early education in Italy / William A. Corsaro and Luisa Molinari -- Listening to children : and hearing them / Helen Roberts -- Children as researchers : participation rights and research methods / Priscilla Alderson.