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Mom, Dad, and the Research Object: The Ethics of Conducting Research Based on Your Own Children's Everyday Life
Author(s) -
Matthiesen Noomi,
Szulevicz Thomas
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
anthropology and education quarterly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.531
H-Index - 46
eISSN - 1548-1492
pISSN - 0161-7761
DOI - 10.1111/aeq.12253
Subject(s) - objectivity (philosophy) , everyday life , sociology , power (physics) , moment (physics) , object (grammar) , psychology , epistemology , computer science , philosophy , physics , classical mechanics , quantum mechanics , artificial intelligence
Doing research into the everyday lives of one's own children allows for a unique in‐depth insight into the complexities of educational life. This article discusses the ethical dilemmas of this kind of research including issues of power, consent, emotional involvement, objectivity, and researcher positioning, arguing that research is always a risk‐filled endeavor requiring vigilant ethical astuteness and moment‐to‐moment judgments, which are particularly radicalized when doing research with intimate others such as one's children.