Exploring Ethical Issues When Using Visual Tools in Educational Research

2008 ◽  
pp. 119-133 ◽  
Author(s):  
Doria Daniels
Keyword(s):  
Educational Research ◽  
Ethical Issues

scholarly journals ‘And How Would You Describe Yourself?’ Researchers and Researched in the First Stages of a Qualitative, Longitudinal Research Project

1996 ◽  
Vol 40 (1) ◽  
pp. 88-103 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lyn Yates ◽  
Julie McLeod
Keyword(s):  
Longitudinal Study ◽  
Secondary School ◽  
Empirical Study ◽  
Educational Research ◽  
Ethical Issues ◽  
Longitudinal Research ◽  
Methodological Issues ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Secondary Schooling

This article discusses methodological issues and some initial substantive findings from the first two years of the 12 to 18 Educational Research Project. The 12 to 18 Project is a qualitative, longitudinal study of girls and boys from the end of Year 6 and as they proceed through each year of their secondary schooling. The article discusses epistemological and ethical issues related to how and with what implications the researchers ‘construct’ the researched in this long-term empirical study. It then discusses background literature and some initial findings in the three areas with which the project is concerned: the development of gendered subjectivity in the years of secondary school; schools, inequalities, and students' changing relationship to curriculum; and students' changing thinking about their futures.

scholarly journals Negotiating the Ethical Conduct of Educational Research in an Institutional Review Board Space: Perspectives from a University in Ethiopia

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ashenafi Alemu
Keyword(s):  
Research Ethics ◽  
Educational Research ◽  
Ethical Issues ◽  
Behavioral Science ◽  
Institutional Review Board ◽  
Ethical Review ◽  
National Guidelines ◽  
African Countries ◽  
Institutional Review ◽  
Éthique De La Recherche

Some international researchers assume that there is a lack of ethical review of research in many countries of the Global South. However, numerous African countries have recently introduced local and national research ethics guidelines. This article unpacks how ethical reviews of research in education are negotiated in a higher education institution in Ethiopia. It employs a critical analytical lens to challenge some of the assumptions of Beaty’s (2010) Institutional Review Board (IRB) stakeholder model. The article begins with a discussion of the limitations inherent in the IRB model. Critical analyses of institutional documents and non-confidential, off-the-shelf IRB minutes are also conducted. The analysis shows that researchers within the medical and health sciences disciplines have well established organizational engagement when it comes to handling issues related to research ethics. However, the limited representation of the educational and social and behavioral science disciplines remains a challenge. Furthermore, ethical issues in conducting educational research are hardly addressed in the national guidelines for granting research ethics approval. This results in further marginalisation of the contributions of educational research to knowledge production. Certains chercheurs internationaux présument un manque de suivi éthique de la recherche dans plusieurs pays du Sud. Cependant, de nombreux pays d’Afrique ont récemment mis en place des recommandations au niveau local et national en ce qui concerne l’éthique de la recherche. Le présent article analyse comment le suivi éthique de la recherche en sciences de l’éducation est mené dans un établissement d’enseignement supérieur en Ethiopie. Adoptant un point de vue analytique critique, il remet en question certains présupposés du modèle de l’Institutional Review Board (IRB – comité d’éthique de la recherche) de Beaty (2010) basé sur la théorie des parties prenantes. L’article commence par considérer les limites du modèle de l’Institutional Review Board. Des analyses critiques sont également menées à partir de documents institutionnels et de comptes-rendus disponibles et non confidentiels de réunions de l’Institutional Review Board. Cette recherche démontre que les chercheurs en médecine et sciences de la santé ont des positions clairement établies et propres aux organismes auxquels ils appartiennent, qui leur permettent de faire face aux questions d’éthique de la recherche. Cependant, la sous-représentation des sciences de l’éducation, des sciences sociales et des sciences comportementales demeure problématique. De plus, les questions éthiques qui se posent dans la recherche en sciences de l’éducation sont à peine abordées dans les directives nationales qui permettent d’obtenir l’approbation du comité d’éthique de la recherche. Cela a pour conséquence d’éloigner un peu plus les contributions de la recherche en sciences de l’éducation de la production du savoir.

scholarly journals ETHICS AND VALIDITY AS CORE ISSUES IN QUALITATIVE RESEARCH: A REVIEW PAPER

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Zarina Waheed , Abdul Nasir Kiazai, Waheed Bahadur
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Educational Research ◽  
Review Paper ◽  
Ethical Issues ◽  
Qualitative Studies ◽  
Narrative Review ◽  
Research Directions ◽  
Secondary Sources ◽  
Appropriate Practices ◽  
Core Issues

Qualitative research is criticized for having issues validity, reliability, and ethics. This review paper focuses on two core issues involved in qualitative research generally and in educational research more specifically. Firstly, this review sheds light on ethical issues involved in qualitative research. It also discusses issues of validity in qualitative research. In this study, narrative review method has been adopted. The secondary sources or previous research studies have been reviewed in order to suggest some research directions regarding the issues of validity and ethics in qualitative research. It was found that researcher plays a central role in assuring both validity and ethics in qualitative research. Researcher are recommended to have command on research techniques required for conducting qualitative studies. Moreover, researchers are recommended to adopt ethically appropriate practices by conducting honestly robust qualitative studies.  

scholarly journals Introduction: Ethical issues in educational research

2020 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-9
Author(s):  
Shauna Butterwick ◽  
George Head ◽  
Joanna Madalinska-Michalak ◽  
Milosh Raykov ◽  
Alison Taylor ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Educational Research ◽  
Ethical Issues ◽  
Ethical Conduct ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Research Journal ◽  
Research In Education ◽  
Current Concerns

This special issue of the European Educational Research Journal (EERJ) addresses the issues surrounding current concerns regarding the ethical conduct of research in education. The impetus for ethical regulation of educational research has come from our institutions; therefore, by its very nature it is bureaucratic and often perceived by researchers as obstructive and even unethical. The papers herein tackle these problematic matters by interrogating the difficult questions surrounding ethical processes and charting academics’ experiences of and reactions to them. The issue argues that academics need to take possession of this debate through practice so that it becomes an aid to research, enhancing the conduct of research and the dignity, privacy and humanity of researchers and their participants.

scholarly journals Ethics in educational research: Review boards, ethical issues and researcher development

2018 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 72-83 ◽  
Author(s):  
George Head
Keyword(s):  
Educational Research ◽  
Ethical Issues ◽  
Research Process ◽  
Ethical Conduct ◽  
Ethical Review ◽  
Research Review ◽  
Researcher Development ◽  
The Social ◽  
Set Up ◽  
Review Boards

Educational research, and research in the Social Sciences more generally, has experienced a growth in the introduction of ethical review boards since the 1990s. Increasingly, universities have set up ethics review procedures that require researchers to submit applications seeking approval to conduct research. Review boards and the rules and conditions under which they operate have been criticised as obstructive, unnecessarily bureaucratic, and even unethical. At the same time, review boards and their procedures have been acknowledged as contributing to consideration of the ethical conduct of research. This paper explores the issues related to ethical review and examines the wider ethical considerations that may arise during the research process. The paper concludes that a purely administrative process of review is inadequate to ensure the ethical conduct of research, especially qualitative research. Rather, it is argued that ethical research entails the resolution of a potential series of ethical dilemmas as they arise during research. As such, the ethical conduct of research is a matter of researcher formation and development.

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