Summary
Contents
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If you are a trainee teacher or experienced practitioner new to research, or are simply wondering how to get started on your education research project, this practical book will be your guide. The authors offer simple steps to ensure that you ask the key questions in the most effective way possible. The book guides you through the entire research process: from clarifying the context and conceptual background, to presenting and analysing the evidence gathered. Supported by examples, checklists and diagrams, this fully revised and updated edition includes a wealth of information on: Research design • Evidence gathering techniques • Practitioner research • Ethics • Data analysis techniques. This book will be valuable to anyone begining a research or a professional or a professional or school development project, whatever stage they are at within the teaching community, from training for QTS, higher degree, or in need of evidence-backed decisions for the strategic development of their school.
Consideration of Ethical Issues
Consideration of Ethical Issues
This chapter will focus on the following learning outcomes:
- development of a critical understanding of the principles underpinning research involving human beings, especially vulnerable groups;
- identification of potential ethical issues that you need to take into consideration prior to, during and following completion of data collection;
- production of appropriate documentation regarding gatekeeper's permission and informed consent.
By the time you have read this chapter you should be able to employ ethically appropriate strategies in:
- your selection and recruitment of research participants;
- seeking gatekeepers’ permission;
- obtaining participants’ informed consent;
- conducting data collection (e.g. interviewing, observation);
- your dissemination of research findings.
Ethics and the Professional Practice Context
In a drive to raise standards in education and academic achievement, schools and teachers working within them have come under increasing pressure ...
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