TY - JOUR
T1 - Working with young people. Implications for research and programming
AU - Aggleton, P.
PY - 2001
Y1 - 2001
N2 - Accessing young people's views and perspectives is central to the design of programmes and interventions to promote adolescent health. Yet all too often, efforts to explore young people's health-related knowledge, attitudes and practices have been influenced by adult perceptions of what young people should, or might, think and do. This paper argues for an alternative approach rooted in the provisionality and contextuality of young people's life experiences. It highlights the usefulness of different types of qualitative enquiry in accessing young people's views and perspectives, and the value of more interpretative styles of adolescent health research.
AB - Accessing young people's views and perspectives is central to the design of programmes and interventions to promote adolescent health. Yet all too often, efforts to explore young people's health-related knowledge, attitudes and practices have been influenced by adult perceptions of what young people should, or might, think and do. This paper argues for an alternative approach rooted in the provisionality and contextuality of young people's life experiences. It highlights the usefulness of different types of qualitative enquiry in accessing young people's views and perspectives, and the value of more interpretative styles of adolescent health research.
KW - Adolescent health
KW - Health perspectives
KW - Interpretative enquiry
KW - Qualitative research
KW - Young people
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=0035070805&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1515/IJAMH.2001.13.1.13
DO - 10.1515/IJAMH.2001.13.1.13
M3 - Review article
SN - 0334-0139
VL - 13
SP - 13
EP - 24
JO - International Journal of Adolescent Medicine and Health
JF - International Journal of Adolescent Medicine and Health
IS - 1
ER -