Considering CHE (Connectivity, Humanness, and Empathy)—Principles for Sustaining Respectful, Authentic, and Dialogical Research with Young Families

This book is framed to research with young families within a methodological approach that is respectful, ethical, and dialogical. As such, those who choose to adopt such an approach may need to reframe their methodological techniques, and theoretical orientations, in order to ensure authenticity, relevance, and rigour, and to best afford for these narratives to be privileged and illuminated. Such an approach also calls on researchers to draw on the mechanics of listening, and engage in dialogical relations (also raised in earlier chapters), each of these being essential components for engaging in the process of ethical co-construction of research with family members, and establishing and maintaining trust and effective rapport building with participants.