Whether an individual doctoral study or a large-scale
multidisciplinary project, researchers working across cultures face
particular challenges around power, identity, and voice, as they
encounter ethical dilemmas which extend beyond the micro-level of the
researcher-researched relationship. In using a cross-cultural
perspective on how to conceptualise research problems, collect data,
and disseminate findings in an ethical manner, they also engage with
the geopolitics of academic writing, language inequalities, and
knowledge construction within a globalised economy. It is increasingly
recognised that existing ethical codes and paradigms either do not
sufficiently address such issues or tend to be rather restrictive and
insensitive to multiple and complex cultural and contextual
differences. This book extends our understanding of the ethical issues
and dilemmas faced by researchers in comparative and international
education. It asks what the relevance of postcolonial theory is for
understanding research ethics in comparative and international
education; whether Western ethical practices in qualitative social
research are incompatible with cultures outside the West; how a
‘situated’ approach can be developed for exploring research ethics
across cultures and institutions; and how ‘informed consent’ can
be negotiated when the process appears to contradict community values
and practices. In sharing experiences from a wide range of cultural
and institutional contexts, the authors offer both theoretical
resources and practical guidance for conducting research ethically
across cultures. This book was originally published as a special issue
of Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education.
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Issues of knowledge, power and voice
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ISBN
9781317217114
Publisert
2018
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Routledge
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Product language
Engelsk
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Digital bok
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