Breaking In Compromises in Participatory Field Research within Closed Institutions

This essay explores a case study of participatory action research (PAR) into the experiences and views of students as they enter and leave high school. Ethical issues are inevitably entwined in such an enterprise at both practical and epistemological levels. Formal institutions have ethical standard...

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Published inWalking the Tightrope p. 124
Main Author MARY STRATTON
Format Book Chapter
LanguageEnglish
Published Canada University of Toronto Press 26.11.2002
Subjects
Academic communities
Applied sciences
Behavioral sciences
Charitable behavior
Committees
Economic disciplines
Economics
Education
Educational institutions
Educational personnel
Employment
Field research
Formal education
High school students
High schools
Human behavior
Human populations
Human societies
Labor economics
Occupations
Persons
Population studies
Prisoners
Questionnaires
Research design
Research methods
Review committees
School principals
Schools
Secondary school students
Secondary schools
Social behavior
Social groups
Social interaction
Social sciences
Sociology
Students
Survey methods
Survey research
Universities
Volunteerism
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Summary:This essay explores a case study of participatory action research (PAR) into the experiences and views of students as they enter and leave high school. Ethical issues are inevitably entwined in such an enterprise at both practical and epistemological levels. Formal institutions have ethical standards to be satisfied, which may or may not be compatible with the intrinsically ethical ideals of participatory research. As the researcher, my ethical goal (and, sometimes, dilemma) was to find a way to allow the voices of the students to be heard. Despite considerable research policy and theoretical attention vis-à-vis educational transitions, very little has
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