Ethics, Authenticity, and Teaching Action Research – Mary Brydon-Miller
In a meeting with a student today to discuss her comprehensive exam, I said that I had a new standard question I would ask every student to address. That question is to describe your ethical stance and to discuss how your proposed research embodies that position. But how do we help students to articulate their […]
Read More...Ethics – Mentors
Think about the person who did the most to mentor you. What three words would you use to describe this individual? This is the question I asked the participants in last week’s Teaching Research Ethics workshop to consider. Then I asked them to write down these three words on post-it notes and we collected all […]
Read More...Ethics in AR – Mary Brydon-Miller
This week I’m writing from the Teaching Research Ethics Workshop at Indiana University, Bloomington. This is the third year I’ve attended the workshop…first as a participant and now as faculty. The event is organized by the Poynter Center for the Study of Ethics and American Institutions and brings together scholars from a wide range of […]
Read More...Ethics and Action Research
Just because it’s action research doesn’t make it ethical. In fact, the ethical implications and potential complications of doing work in organizational and community settings makes it all the more important that we consider carefully the ethical issues involved in AR. In 2006 Davydd Greenwood, Olav Eikeland, and I edited a special issue of Action […]
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