1st Edition

Researching Ethically across Cultures Issues of knowledge, power and voice

Edited By Anna Robinson-Pant, Nidhi Singal Copyright 2016
142 Pages
by Routledge

142 Pages
by Routledge

148 Pages
by Routledge

Whether an individual doctoral study or a large-scale multidisciplinary project, researchers working across cultures face particular challenges around power, identity, and voice, as they encounter ethical dilemmas which extend beyond the micro-level of the researcher-researched relationship. In using a cross-cultural perspective on how to conceptualise research problems, collect data, and... Read more

Introduction – Researching ethically across cultures: issues of knowledge, power and voice Anna Robinson-Pant and Nidhi Singal

1. Towards a postcolonial research ethics in comparative and international education Leon Tikly and Tim Bond

2. Research ethics in comparative and international education: reflections from anthropology and health Anna Robinson-Pant and Nidhi Singal

3. Informed consent in educational research in the South: tensions and accommodations Fauzia Shamim and Rashida Qureshi

4. Challenges to anonymity and representation in educational qualitative research in a small community: a reflection on my research journey Dheeba Moosa

5. Working together for critical research ethics Pat Sikes

6. The politics of ethics in diverse cultural settings: colonising the centre stage Adrian Holliday

Reflective Endpiece

7. The importance of listening for sharing life experiences Juan Carlos Barrón-Pastor

8. Looking back, looking within: reflections on a feminist research study: analysing the methodology of a tracer study based in rural Uttar Pradesh, India Malini Ghose and Disha Mullick

Biography

Anna Robinson-Pant is Professor of Education at the University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK. She previously worked in Nepal as a development worker, teacher educator and researcher, receiving the UNESCO International Award for Literacy Research for her ethnographic study on women’s literacy and development in Nepal. In UK higher education, she has conducted research with international students, and is particularly interested in internationalisation policy and practice.

Nidhi Singal is Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Education at the University of Cambridge, UK. Her work focuses on the educational exclusion and inclusion of children with disabilities in low and middle income countries. She has been involved in various research projects in South Asia and Africa. She is particularly interested in ethical issues arising from researching with marginalised groups, particularly those with disabilities and in the ethics of research dissemination.