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The most exciting thing: Researcher ethics and personal ethics
Author(s) -
Ballard Robert L.
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
new directions for teaching and learning
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.192
H-Index - 46
eISSN - 1536-0768
pISSN - 0271-0633
DOI - 10.1002/tl.377
Subject(s) - feeling , sociology , constitution , identity (music) , autoethnography , officer , field (mathematics) , meta ethics , faith , nursing ethics , engineering ethics , epistemology , psychology , aesthetics , law , social psychology , political science , social science , philosophy , mathematics , engineering , pure mathematics
This autoethnographic chapter explores the thoughts, feelings, desires, and ethical struggles of the author when he rode along with a patrol officer and saw a dead body. Drawing on communication ethics, the author problematizes his ethics, faith, identity, and personal desires. He learns it is important for researchers to consider their personal ethical constitution while in the field.