Open AccessEthical Dilemmas for Researchers Working in International Contexts
Author(s) -
Roy Doiron,
Marlene Asselin
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
school libraries worldwide
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2816-3788
pISSN - 1023-9391
DOI - 10.29173/slw6890
Subject(s) - engineering ethics , political science , power (physics) , sociology , epistemology , public relations , environmental ethics , engineering , philosophy , physics , quantum mechanics
With the advance of research into increasingly international contexts, and the momentum of this progress driven primarily by researchers from western or "developed" countries, inevitable tensions and dilemmas have arisen in these world crossings. This paper discusses troubling confrontations of assumptions and practices and proposes that researchers view these challenges as opportunities for re-examining and reflecting on such matters as uncontested norms of truth, methodologies, and positions of power.