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Researching in Family Settings - Social Pedagogic Experience from Croatia

Researching in familiy settings is extremely hard and complex issue on multiple levels. In order to exchange the knowledge and experiences gained so far, the authors will focus their presentation on three key topics: family definitions, research design, and methods of data gathering in researching families. The presenters will open some important questions of defining qualitative research design in family studies. That is: challenges in defining post-modern families (at risk), complexities in studying family as a system and researching multy family perspectives, problems of data analysis in family researches (individual vs. family data), ethical questions in researching with (in) family (family interview as a method and intervention for strengthening families), benefits and disadvantages of family group interview as a method of data collection as well as possibilities of using creative methods and techniques as a complementary data collection methods. The authos will illustrate above stated dilemmas with examples from their (modest) former research experience gained through research in the field of social pedagogy in Croatia, such as research with families at risk and foster families. The aim of the presentation is explorative because presenters want to start scientific reflections and discussion as well as to bring new topics for further implementation and development of these issues in research practice.

research, families, social pedagogy

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