1st Edition

Ethics and Academic Freedom in Educational Research

Edited By Pat Sikes, Heather Piper Copyright 2011
128 Pages
by Routledge

126 Pages
by Routledge

128 Pages
by Routledge

Formal ethical review of research proposals is now almost the default requirement for all – staff and students – planning research under the auspices of colleges and universities in many parts of the world. With notable exceptions, the extant literature discussing educational research ethics takes a meta-ethical overview, is negatively critical about the ethics review process per se, or comes... Read more

1. Ethical research, academic freedom and the role of ethics committees and review procedures in educational research Pat Sikes and Heather Piper  2. Socially just research for social justice: negotiating consent and safety in a participatory action research project Renée DePalma  3. One chairperson’s experience of ethical review: balancing principle, convention, relationship and risk in educational research John O’Neill  4. Research ethics and participatory research in an interdisciplinary technology-enhanced learning project Frances Tracy and Patrick Carmichael  5. Fieldwork for language education research in rural Bangladesh: ethical issues and dilemmas M. Obaidul Hamid  6. Researcher tales and research ethics: the spaces in which we find ourselves Julie White and Tanya Fitzgerald  7. Overstepping the mark: ethics procedures, risky research and education researchers Catherine Lomas Scott and Lariane Fonseca  8. How an exchange of perspectives led to tentative ethical guidelines for visual ethnography Clive C. Pope, Rosemary De Luca and Martin Tolich

Biography

Dr Pat Sikes is Professor of Qualitative Inquiry at the University of Sheffield, UK.

Dr Heather Piper is a Professorial Research Fellow within the Education and Social Research Institute (ESRI), at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK.