{"id":1361,"date":"2010-09-01T10:30:00","date_gmt":"2010-09-01T10:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/actionresearchplus.com\/2010\/09\/01\/teaching-research-ethics-with-guest-blogger-kenneth-d-pimple\/"},"modified":"2014-03-27T21:06:19","modified_gmt":"2014-03-27T21:06:19","slug":"teaching-research-ethics-with-guest-blogger-kenneth-d-pimple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/actionresearchplus.com\/teaching-research-ethics-with-guest-blogger-kenneth-d-pimple\/","title":{"rendered":"Teaching Research Ethics with guest blogger Kenneth D. Pimple"},"content":{"rendered":"
I have directed the annual Teaching Research Ethics Workshop (TRE)<\/a> since its inception in 1993. Nearly 700 researchers, research administrators, and others have participated in the workshop. <\/p>\n <\/p>\n For the first several years of the workshop, I was continually surprised at how many TRE participants were mystified by the idea of teaching ethics. I’m not surprised any more, but I still don’t understand its cause. Sometimes the mystification manifests as frank hostility – “You can’t teach anyone to be ethical. If they didn’t learn it in kindergarten, it’s too late.” More often it comes out as simple cluelessness, as if they can’t guess what “research ethics” might mean, let alone how it could be taught.<\/p>\n