The ethics of researching those who are close to you: the case of the abandoned ADD project

Puchner, Laurel; Smith, Louis M.

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“…To what extent does this carry the cultural imperialism of anthropology? Puchner and Smith (2008) describe how being torn between two objectives presented ethical challenges. These include conflicting cultural and discursive assumptions.…”

Section: Educational Action Research 507mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…An important ethical question is whether action research is worth doing (Puchner and Smith 2008). Do the benefits justify the costs?…”

Section: Is the Project Ethical?mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Boal's reply was that challenging oppression is, by definition, dangerous and some people will be harmed. Puchner and Smith (2008) discussed the ethics of a research project in which talk was being analysed for racist discourse. The participants were not fully aware of the purpose of the research:…”

Section: S Meementioning

confidence: 99%

“…A significant issue for Puchner and Smith (2008) was to what extent the project should be collaborative. They conclude that full collaboration is the desirable ethical position, citing Zeni (2001).…”

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confidence: 99%

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It gets me upset talking about the Royal Albert: collaborative analysis of the ethics of an oral history project

Mee

2012

Educational Action Research

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An ongoing oral history project at the University of Cumbria seeks to uncover the lived experiences of people with learning difficulties who lived at the Royal Albert Hospital. A recently made video exposed the apparent distress this caused one of the participants. Ethical discussions about the project reached a point of being 'stuck'. The ethical dilemma was presented at the Collaborative Action Research Network conference in 2009, and the ensuing discussion with conference participants produced a rich, collaborative unpicking of the issues. Problems of power, multiple discourse, historical relationships and ethical fluidity emerged. Analysis of the praxis of the project -that is, ways of thinking, doing and saying -suggests different ways of progressing.

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Section: Educational Action Research 507mentioning

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“…An important ethical question is whether action research is worth doing (Puchner and Smith 2008). Do the benefits justify the costs?…”

Section: Is the Project Ethical?mentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: S Meementioning

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Section: Reflections On Powermentioning

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It gets me upset talking about the Royal Albert: collaborative analysis of the ethics of an oral history project

Mee

2012

Educational Action Research

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“…While there is a robust literature across the disciplines addressing the ethical challenges of working with youth and the need to maximize genuine opportunities for to be heard during the research process (Alderson & Morrow, 2004; Barnes, 2007; Cahill, 2007; Graue & Walsh, 1998; Jones & Stanley, 2008; Melton, 1987; Puchner & Smith, 2008; Thomas & O'Kane, 2006; Valentine, 1999), that literature offers little guidance on how one reconciles the need to provide such vulnerable and underrepresented populations with a voice when one's action research leads toadvocacy in as fraught a forum as city politics. Likewise, the literature is largelysilent as to how to ethically deal with groups, institutions, and power dynamics outside one's research community, notwithstanding a rich and varied body of work on proper ethics in dealing with one's own research community (Cochran et al, 2008; Fine & Torre, 2006; Gatenby & Humphries, 2000; Ivanitz, 1999; Maiter, Simich, Jacobson, & Wise, 2009).…”

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Activist research and city politics: Ethical lessons from youth-based public scholarship

Carr

2011

Action Research

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This article offers observations from an ongoing action research project involving advocacy for public skateboarding facilities in Seattle, Washington to demonstrate both the need for, and the inherent limits to an ethical framework for action rooted in the Kantian moral imperative of treating all people as 'ends and not means'. By tracing the ethical dilemmas arising from work seeking to advocate on behalf of young people through conventional urban politics, I argue that a 'covenantal' ethic should be extended not only to the action researcher's research community, but also to those with whom we compete in the political arena. In support of this argument, I describe both the ethical problems arising from purporting to speak on behalf young people, and the difficulties in ethically seeking policy change through urban politics and planning -particularly given the tendencies for political debate to revolve around essentialized constructions of youth identities, and for urban planning processes to reinforce neighborhood level disparities in power.

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Research Ethics in Swedish Dissertations in Educational Science – A Matter of Confusion

Cronqvist

2024

J Acad Ethics

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In all research, ethical considerations are crucial to reliability and quality and researchers are guided by various national and international documents and ethical committees. Despite different strategies to guide researchers and to ensure quality, there still seems to be uncertainty in educational science about how research ethics should be positioned and handled in practice. The aim of this study is to phenomenologically explore what meanings the phenomenon research ethics are given in Swedish doctoral dissertations in educational research based on how doctoral researchers position, frame and present research ethics in their ethical elaborations. The empirical data consists of 60 doctoral dissertations in educational science at Swedish universities from the past year. The result indicates very different meanings of ethical considerations despite a quite common point of departure in the Swedish Research Council’s guidelines and knowledge of the Ethics Review Act. Some variations can be related to the differences in the studies’ designs, but regardless of such explanations, the conclusion is that consensus regarding ethical considerations in research is largely lacking.

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The ethics of researching those who are close to you: the case of the abandoned ADD project

Cited by 6 publications

References 1 publication

It gets me upset talking about the Royal Albert: collaborative analysis of the ethics of an oral history project

It gets me upset talking about the Royal Albert: collaborative analysis of the ethics of an oral history project

Activist research and city politics: Ethical lessons from youth-based public scholarship

Research Ethics in Swedish Dissertations in Educational Science – A Matter of Confusion

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