Situated Ethics in Educational Research

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Ethics has traditionally been seen as a set of general principles which can be applied in a range of situations. This book argues that in fact ethical principles must be shaped within different research practices and hence take on different significances according to varying research situations. The book develops the notion of situated ethics and explores how ethical issues are practically handled by educational researchers in the field. Contributors present theoretical models and practical examples of what situated ethics involves in conducting research on specific areas.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

• Introduction: Ethics in the Practice of Research
• 2 The Dark Side of Purity or the Double-Mindedness
• 3 Feminist Approaches to Situated Ethics
• 4 "Damned if You Do, Damned if You Don't": ethical and political dilemmas in evaluation research
• 5 "Come into My Parlour": ethical space and the conduct of evaluation
• 6 Whose Side, Whose Research, Whose Learning, Whose Outcomes? Ethics, Emancipatory Research and Unemployment
• 7 Researching Education and Racialization: virtue or validity?
• 8 Snakes and Ladders: ethical issues in conducting educational research in a postcolonial context
• 9 The Moral Maze of Image Ethics
• 10 Dancing with the Devil: ethics and research in educational markets
• 11 A Regrettable Oversight or a Significant Omission? Ethical Considerations in Quantitative Research in Education
• 12 Deconstructive Happening, Ethical Moment