Thinking Critically and Ethically about Research for Education

Alison Fox is a Senior Lecturer at the Faculty of Wellbeing, Education and Language Studies at The Open University, UK. Hugh Busher is an Honorary Associate Professor in the School of Education, University of Leicester, UK. Carmel Capewell is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Education at Oxford Brookes University, UK.

• Table of ContentsForewordSection 1 Research empowering Children and Young PeopleChapter 1 Introduction – Alison Fox, Hugh Busher and Carmel CapewellChapter 2 Persistence and perseverance: Working with University Research Ethics Committee (UREC) processes to elicit children’s views, voices and volitions - Deb McGregor, Sarah Frodsham Clarysly DellerChapter 3 Building a case for inclusive ways of knowing through a case study of a cross-cultural research project of out-of-school girls’ aspirations in Zimbabwe: practitioners’ perspectives - Liz Chamberlain, Alison Buckler and Faith MkwananziChapter 4 Well That’s another Fine Mess You Got Me Into: The Jargon of Research (How do we translate this for the participant with additional needs?) - Carol-Ann O’Síoráin, Connor McGuckin and Kate Carr-FanningChapter 5 Hearing students’ voices through photo-narratives that elicit their views on relationships and power in schools - Hugh BusherChapter 6 Diaries and hearing maps from a diagnostic tool to a communication device between adults and 3-7 year old children with glue ear - Carmel CapewellChapter 7 Listening to silence in the quest to offer migrant learners a ‘voice’ through picturebook research in South Africa - Helen HannaSection 2 Research empowering adults and for professional learningChapter 8 Teacher empowerment within Twitter chats: A more-than-human perspective -Martina EmkeChapter 9 Ethical Reflections on Ethnographic Exposure of Exclusion in PBL Group-learning - Gerd ChristensenChapter 10 Methods for and with refugees: issues of vulnerability and participation of displaced people in camps on the Thai-Burma border – Victoria JackChapter 11 Socio-mapping and the relational resilience of and for training teachers - Alison Fox, Kate Sida-Nicholls and Rob LoeChapter 12 Critical realist research: ethical issues and dilemmas as illustrated through a doctoral study in an African university - Kris StutchburyChapter 13 Mature students use of free-drawn mind diagrams to express the struggles of their learning journeys: Ethics, identity and power - Hugh Busher and Nalita JamesSection 3 Critical appraisal of ethics and researchChapter 14 Critical ethical reflexivity: Reflections for practice and knowledge - Alison Fox and Hugh BusherChapter 15 Developing Phrónēsis: Challenges and opportunities - Hugh Busher, Alison Fox and Carmel Capewell