Ethical Dilemmas in Educational Research: Considering challenges and risks in practice

Ethical dilemmas confront all educational researchers, and the literature is replete with example and with administrative ways of processing them.  This seminar focuses upon real-life and inclusive examples of dilemmas, looking at how they might be resolved.  It draws upon different perspectives, both methodologically and theoretical. Presentations are based upon a recent book, Ethical Dilemmas in Education: Considering Learning Contexts in Practice, with an emphasis upon

• Researcher reflexivity, wellbeing and ethical safety
• Starting with self
• Jolts in the margins: probing the ethical dimensions of post-paradigms in educational research
• The hidden lives of ethics

Following brief presentations on each of the above topics, there will be a discussion on ethical dilemmas encountered by the researchers present, both as presenters and in the audience.