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Opening Windows, Closing Doors: Ethical Dilemmas in Educational Action Research
Author(s) -
Tickle Les
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
journal of philosophy of education
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.501
H-Index - 41
eISSN - 1467-9752
pISSN - 0309-8249
DOI - 10.1111/1467-9752.00231
Subject(s) - doors , closing (real estate) , action (physics) , sociology , media studies , library science , political science , law , engineering , physics , structural engineering , quantum mechanics , computer science
The chapter records personal accounts of the author’s dealings with dilemmas encountered in the research methods literature and in the field of practice, as an action researcher and teacher educator. It draws on Mary Chamberlain’s Fenwomen to illustrate some of the dangers of ethnographic research. Using data from two instances, one in a pre‐service initial teacher‐training programme and the other in teacher induction, the author draws out the tensions between the ‘need to know’ in order to act professionally, and the ‘need to protect’ in order to do the same.