Ethics and Academic Freedom in Educational Research

<p>Formal ethical review of research proposals is now almost the default requirement for all - staff and students - planning research under the auspices of colleges and universities in many parts of the world. With notable exceptions the extant literature discussing educational research ethics takes a meta-ethical overview is negatively critical about the ethics review process per se or comes from America and focuses specifically on the workings of the Institutional Review Boards (IRBs) there.</p><p>This book however contains stories of lived experience from the UK Spain New Zealand Bangladesh and Australia dealing with inter alia: dissatisfactions with criteria against which research proposals and designs and by extension researchers themselves are judged to be ethical; problems encountered in obtaining ethical clearance; changes which have had to be made to plans which are believed to have affected the ensuing research process and outcomes; cases where ethical issues and difficulties arose and required considered responses despite permission to undertake the research in question being granted; and benefits perceived to accrue from ethical review procedures.</p><p><em>Ethics and Academic Freedom in Educational Research</em> will be of interest to researchers students members of ethics review boards and those teaching research ethics primarily at postgraduate but also at undergraduate level.</p><p>This book was originally published as a special issue of the <em>International Journal of Research and Method in Education.</em></p>