‘Like the stranger at a funeral who cries more than the bereaved’: ethical dilemmas in ethnographic research with children

Okyere, Samuel

doi:10.1177/1468794117743464

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“…In the setting, demand for prior parental consent might result in biased data and low response rate [58,59]. Furthermore, scholars have called for socio-culturally responsive ethics reviews [60,61]. Consequently, prior parental consent was not requested.…”

Section: Ethicsmentioning

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Use of Digital Technology among Adolescents Attending Schools in Bissau, Guinea-Bissau

Gunnlaugsson

Whitehead

Baboudóttir

et al. 2020

IJERPH

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Digital technology plays an important role in achieving many of the Sustainable Development Goals. However, access is uneven, with 80% of those in high-income countries being online compared to 20% of those in the 47 least developed countries. This study aimed to describe and analyse adolescents’ access to and usage of digital technology in Guinea-Bissau and its implications. In June 2017, a survey with a locally adapted Planet Youth questionnaire was implemented in the capital, Bissau, whereby classes in 16 secondary schools were surveyed on a variety of issues. In total, 2039 randomly selected students participated; the survey included ten questions specifically on the access to and use of digital technology. Half of the respondents had access to desktop/laptops, and one-third used mobile internet daily; about two-thirds had an experience of social media. Explanatory variables included educational institution, parental education, economic situation, and gender. Furthermore, students’ experience of social media was significantly linked to bullying, anxiety, depression, smoking and alcohol consumption. Many adolescents in Bissau have no experience of using digital technology, including for schoolwork. Access improvements are necessary so that young Bissau-Guineans are not to be left behind in developing their capabilities and can benefit from proficiency in the use of digital technologies. At the same time, potential harmful usage of the media requires the implementation of preventive measures.

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Section: Ethicsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Use of Digital Technology among Adolescents Attending Schools in Bissau, Guinea-Bissau

Gunnlaugsson

Whitehead

Baboudóttir

et al. 2020

IJERPH

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“…The UNCRC gives children the right to express their opinion, of particular importance during a pandemic that risks their developmental opportunities 7 17 34. Considering the participants were aged 15–17 years, they gave verbal consent without parental agreement 35–37…”

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Adolescents amid emerging COVID-19 pandemic in Bissau, Guinea-Bissau: a qualitative study

Baboudóttir

Jandi²,

Indjai³

et al. 2022

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BackgroundWorldwide, governments have implemented restrictions on movement and gatherings to contain the COVID-19 pandemic. In the spirit of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, children have a right to express their opinion on matters of concern to them. The study aimed to describe and analyse how adolescents in the capital Bissau understood the unfolding COVID-19 pandemic and their lived experiences during the first 3 months of the pandemic.MethodsCollaborators identified participants in five urban areas in Bissau in June 2020. Semistructured, open-ended interviews were conducted with 30 adolescents aged 15–17 years, attending private and public schools or out-of-school. The interviews were conducted in Kriol, recorded, transcribed, translated and analysed.ResultsAll the participants were heavily affected by the confinement measures during a state of emergency. Almost all believed in the realness of coronavirus while there were some doubts about its arrival in the country. The consequences were staying at home, enforced with increased police violence. At the same time, other violence on the streets or between neighbours had decreased. A few participants said they liked staying at home because they appreciated spending more time with their families. Most participants claimed that they and their family members tried to follow preventive measures. Almost all participants voiced concerns about the worsening financial situation at home, leading to food scarcity. Nearly all the adolescents were tired of the lockdown and worried about the pandemic’s implications on their future opportunities.ConclusionsStudy participants, here adolescents in Bissau, have a clear notion of their existence and the current situation’s potential negative impact on their future. Their voices need to be heard and acted on, which may soften the lockdown’s negative impact on adolescents in Guinea-Bissau, as elsewhere.

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“…Even though the inconsistencies between the two are evident, both require researchers’ engagement and consideration. Several authors have discussed the challenges that emerge as a result of their incompatibility (Connor et al, 2018; Heath et al, 2007; Okyere, 2018; Perez, 2019; Roulet et al, 2017; Smette, 2019). One example is that when juggling procedural ethics and the particularities of micro-ethics as two separate practices, the researcher may end up treating informed consent as ‘a necessary evil, instrumental in nature, separate from research itself’ (Hamilton, 2009: 86), performed only to satisfy institutional and legal obligations.…”

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“…However, the directness of an actively sought, ongoing practice of informed consent can also signal a lack of cultural sensitivity and rapport (Flinders, 1992). Furthermore, as both Okyere (2018) and Perez (2019) demonstrate, formal and explicit dialogues of consent can be counteractive by reproducing power structures rather than fostering trust in the research relationship.…”

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Implementing continuous consent in qualitative research

Klykken

2021

Qualitative Research

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This article examines ways of approaching informed consent as a relationally constituted process in qualitative research practices. It argues that a researcher’s operationalization of informed consent should be coherent with the overall epistemological framework of the project. Based on empirical examples from an ethnographic inquiry in an educational setting, the principle of informed consent is discussed as a reflexive and ethical tool throughout the inquiry, including its pre-fieldwork, fieldwork and post-fieldwork phases. Strategies of explicitly and implicitly (re)negotiated consent and dissent are discussed and illustrated by drawing on some of the recent discussions of continuous consent practices. The article’s conceptualization of a continuous, situated and relational approach to informed consent is also supported by the concepts of response-ability and thinking with care in research ethics.

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‘Like the stranger at a funeral who cries more than the bereaved’: ethical dilemmas in ethnographic research with children

Cited by 15 publications

References 75 publications

Use of Digital Technology among Adolescents Attending Schools in Bissau, Guinea-Bissau

Use of Digital Technology among Adolescents Attending Schools in Bissau, Guinea-Bissau

Adolescents amid emerging COVID-19 pandemic in Bissau, Guinea-Bissau: a qualitative study

Implementing continuous consent in qualitative research

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