Using a Citizen Science approach in early childhood education: A call for strengthening evidence

Liza Lee; Jinjin Lu

doi:10.1080/2331186X.2020.1823141

Using a Citizen Science approach in early childhood education: A call for strengthening evidence

Liza Lee, Jinjin Lu^*

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A Citizen Science approach to building the evidence base is well established in many science disciplines, but is far from main stream in the social sciences. Prompted from the inquiry by the Australian Government’s Productivity Commission into the National Education Evidence Base and taking Early Childhood Education (ECE) as an example, this paper aims to provoke discussions about the possible contributions of a Citizen Science approach to broadening the methodological repertoire in ECE research and to positioning ECE research more powerfully in the politics of evidence. It argues that ECE stakeholders’ involvement in building the evidence base through a Citizen Science approach could have the potential to make significant contributions to knowledge construction in ECE.

Original language	English
Article number	1823141
Journal	Cogent Education
Volume	7
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/2331186X.2020.1823141
Publication status	Published - 1 Jan 2020
Externally published	Yes

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Citizen Science
Early Childhood Education (ECE)
evidence-base
social science

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