Description
Book SynopsisPractice based research is burgeoning in a number of professional areas. An Ethical Approach to Practitioner Research covers a comprehensive range of issues and dilemmas encountered in practitioner and action research contexts. While principally focused upon practitioner inquiry in education it takes account of, and acknowledges that others engaged in professional practice such as in legal, nursing and social care contexts, face similar issues and dilemmas. It aims to stimulate ethical thinking and practice in enquiry and research contexts.
Following moves to promote professional learning and development in the workplace, there is an increase in the number of practitioners engaging in action or inquiry based learning in the workplace supported by university staff or consultants, as evidenced in the emergence of professional learning communities and learning networks. There are many tensions inherent in relationships between practitioners and academics in terms of the setting o
Table of Contents
1. Introduction: an Overview of the Purpose of the Book and the Context in Which it has Been Written 2. Managing Research Ethics: A Head on Collision? 3. Everything’s Ethics: Practitioner Inquiry and University Culture 4. At The Boundaries: The Voice of Consequential Stakeholders 5. Children’s Participation in Legal Decision Making 6. Working with Networks: Ethical Tensions in Communities of Trust 7. Professional Values and Research Values: From Dilemmas to Diversity 8. The ‘Insider’ Research Facilitator: The Possibility of Transformational Practice 9. Trans-Disciplinary Inquiry: Researching with Rather than Researching on 10. Behind the Vision: Action Research, Pedagogy and Human Development 11. Ways of Telling: The use of Practitioners’ Stories 12. Investigating Academic Pedagogical Practice 13. Conclusion: New Challenges for an ICT Mediated Future
