ethical, practical and theoretical issues in educational context
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- Created on: 20-03-23 14:21
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- Ethical, Practical & Theoretical issues in educational context
- Ethical
- should ensure no harm is done
- unguarded comments by staff may affect their career progession
- important to maintain confidentiality
- observation of staff rooms has ethical issues if haven't all consented
- children considered particularly vulnerable so must take extra caution
- if distracted from education, could be interpreted as doing harm
- gaining informed consent can be an issue as young participants may not fully understand research
- children shouldn't feel they have to participate due to an adult asking
- consent of children should be obtained as well as parents
- likely to give properly informed consent
- must maintain confidentiality
- Practical
- lack of time- teachers often very busy, little time for interviews for example
- teachers only likely to take part with permission of line manager -restricts availability
- subject to scrutiny, may restrict ability/willingness to take part
- may be unwilling in case research puts institution in bad light and job at risk
- has to fit with working life of teachers, not take too much time and not threaten the institution reputation
- can be limited due to parents consent
- likely have to undergo DBS check
- have to conform to demands like opening times and when they're permitted to access
- approval needed by school and parents
- young pupils may lack skills/confidence to partake
- researching young children can be time consuming and therefore expensive
- parents not usually present in schools, sample hard to get
- difficult to access contact details
- interviews = time consuming to visit individual homes at convinient time
- unlikely to be able to observe behaviour as takes place in private family setting
- Theoretical
- when teachers/ lecturers observed may act unnatural
- likely to associate presence of outsider in classroom with Ofsted inspections. May try to impress
- interviews may be bias and teachers may give cautious answers instead of true opinions
- can be unrepresentative as teachers chosen by senior staff perhaps to give positive impression
- young children may answer falsely as don't understand questions, affecting validity
- those in education have little power, difficult to openly express views
- presence of observer may affect behaviour of pupils
- representativeness of samples has issues as access to children depends on parents and teachers = can't generalise
- problems getting representative sample. those more involved in childs education more likely to take part
- questionnaires can mean uneven response rate
- may lie to appear more interested in childs education to create good impression, affects validity
- Ethical
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