ABSTRACT
Martha Muchow was sensitive to the social relationships between children and adults, and to how they were guided by educational efforts. The latter needs to consider the children’s viewpoints and their idiosyncrasies. These efforts are especially important in research fields that investigate the everyday life experiences of children that embrace new perspectives in theorizing about childhood. Muchow was a pioneer in the efforts to see the world “with the eyes of the children” and to represent the “perspective of the children,” as Michael-Sebastian Honig has emphasized. The use of “model making,” where children rebuild and change the districts with little houses, streets, and other equipment, and make suggestions for how lifeworlds should be, expands the cartographic method. To go beyond Muchow’s research at the time, to further emphasize inclusion of children in research, and to conduct research with children rather than about children are maxims that are embedded in the theoretical views of the New Childhood Research.
