Conversation analysis as a creative research methodology

Bateman, Amanda (2025) Conversation analysis as a creative research methodology. European Early Childhood Education Research Journal. pp. 1-15. ISSN 1350-293X

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Abstract

Conversation analysis (CA) has become increasingly prevalent in early childhood education research interested in exploring children’s everyday interactions with others. Positioning CA as a creative methodology, this article demonstrates one practical and applied way of ‘doing’ CA research with early childhood teacher-practitioners that facilitates authentic ways of listening to children’s voices and offers direct implications for practice. Aligning with a children’s rights philosophy, CA requires rigorous transcription of children’s naturally occurring interactions to document their verbal and gestural participation in situ with a wide range of interlocutors, making visible children’s participation. As such, this article outlines how the use of CA in ECEC research has a significant capacity to influence knowledge and practice with children. Using a CA approach affords rigorous documentation of children’s contributions and lived experiences, revealing their competencies and interests across a wide range of cultures, languages and abilities, offering inclusivity and unique insight. To explore these issues in detail, an example from a New Zealand project exploring pedagogy in natural outdoor spaces will be presented, where the affordances of CA as a rigorous, robust yet creative research approach with implications for enhancing situated practice will be discussed.

Item Type:	Article
Identification Number:	10.1080/1350293X.2025.2480812
Dates:	Date Event 31 March 2025 Accepted 31 March 2025 Published Online
Uncontrolled Keywords:	conversation analysis, creative methodologies, inductive research, ethanmethodology, children's voices
Subjects:	CAH22 - education and teaching > CAH22-01 - education and teaching > CAH22-01-01 - education
Divisions:	Faculty of Health, Education and Life Sciences > College of Education and Social Work
Depositing User:	Gemma Tonks
Date Deposited:	11 Jun 2025 10:48
Last Modified:	11 Jun 2025 10:48
URI:	https://www.open-access.bcu.ac.uk/id/eprint/16423