Ethical Considerations & Ethical Processes looking forward to the Research Inquiry Proposal in Module 2
Last Monday night we had a chance to ask, listen and discuss what ethical considerations and ethical processes we must be aware of and consider when we look at an inquiry within a group of people.
All of us have decided on a number of varying research questions, only one of us is not looking at Dance in Education.
It was great to hear how everyone plans to complete their research and what their processes will be. After speaking with Helen, my supervisor, I have decided to conduct two lots of questionnaire style interviews both at the beginning and the end and of Module 3. I want the students to also be aware of the process and be aware of what I am looking into with them. I don't want to 'use' them so to speak, for my research. But I want us to be on the journey and the discovery together.
After we had introduced our research topics we got onto discuss ethical processes and how it is important to decide on what our process will entail. Will, you choose to conduct your interviews online, face to face, with open-ended questions, or questions that can only be answered with a yes or no, recorded interviews?
It is imperative to be very clear in your Ethics Form Application when asking for approval from the University Board as if you do not ask for approval now for something you later upon decide would be useful, then sadly you cannot, for example, ask a second round of interviews if you did not get approval for these.
It got me onto thinking of covering all bases and asking for things that I may not use but whilst this is good in theory, Helen reminded me to try to not to try and cover too many bases as in the future when we tie yourself to these various processes you will end up cherry-picking and not actually being able to produce a clear intentioned inquiry.
To get onto Ethical Considerations I could say that this is the effect your research will have on those participating or in fact if there are members of the class/group not participating then what would effect would that have on them? The setting must be as organic and comfortable for them so they feel that they are expected to give the right answer but their own honest reflections on the process.
By ensuring the participant's anonymity and confidentially in your process you will then be taking their best interests into consideration.
When thinking about asking their permission we should think about being the participant ourselves perhaps. What would I want to know if I was being asked to participate in someone's research?
All of us have decided on a number of varying research questions, only one of us is not looking at Dance in Education.
It was great to hear how everyone plans to complete their research and what their processes will be. After speaking with Helen, my supervisor, I have decided to conduct two lots of questionnaire style interviews both at the beginning and the end and of Module 3. I want the students to also be aware of the process and be aware of what I am looking into with them. I don't want to 'use' them so to speak, for my research. But I want us to be on the journey and the discovery together.
After we had introduced our research topics we got onto discuss ethical processes and how it is important to decide on what our process will entail. Will, you choose to conduct your interviews online, face to face, with open-ended questions, or questions that can only be answered with a yes or no, recorded interviews?
It is imperative to be very clear in your Ethics Form Application when asking for approval from the University Board as if you do not ask for approval now for something you later upon decide would be useful, then sadly you cannot, for example, ask a second round of interviews if you did not get approval for these.
It got me onto thinking of covering all bases and asking for things that I may not use but whilst this is good in theory, Helen reminded me to try to not to try and cover too many bases as in the future when we tie yourself to these various processes you will end up cherry-picking and not actually being able to produce a clear intentioned inquiry.
To get onto Ethical Considerations I could say that this is the effect your research will have on those participating or in fact if there are members of the class/group not participating then what would effect would that have on them? The setting must be as organic and comfortable for them so they feel that they are expected to give the right answer but their own honest reflections on the process.
By ensuring the participant's anonymity and confidentially in your process you will then be taking their best interests into consideration.
When thinking about asking their permission we should think about being the participant ourselves perhaps. What would I want to know if I was being asked to participate in someone's research?
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