Full Description
Everyday Ethics: Reflections on Practice looks at the moments that demand moral consideration and ethical choice that arise as part of a researcher's daily practice. Drawing on principles of systematic inquiry as transparent and grounded in conceptual reasoning, it describes research as praxis and the researcher as practitioner. The researcher is a decision-maker for both procedural and ethical matters that attend the conduct of research, especially when the research is focused on human wellbeing. Every decision about data collection, analysis, interpretation, and presentation has moral dimensions.
Morally compelling moments demand a reflexivity ('research praxis') - that is, informed action, the back-and-forth between reasoning and action. Methodological wisdom emerges during the cyclical process of inquiry that is doing, thinking about the doing through a moral lens, and doing again. This book invites us to deepen our understanding of everyday ethics, and contributes to the ongoing discourse about research as moral practice, conducted by such reflexive practitioners.
This book was originally published as a special issue of the International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education.
Contents
Chapter 1. Everyday ethics: reflections on practice Gretchen B. Rossman and Sharon F. Rallis Chapter 2. Assumptions, emotions, and interpretations as ethical moments: navigating a small-scale cross-cultural online interviewing study Paul St. John Frisoli Chapter 3. Dangerously important moment(s) in reflexive research practices with immigrant youth Ryan Evely Gildersleeve Chapter 4. Representing representation Aaron M. Kuntz Chapter 5. 'That is NOT what's happening at Horizon!': ethics and misrepresenting knowledge in text Sharon F. Rallis Chapter 6. Critical incidents and reflection: turning points that challenge the researcher and create opportunities for knowing Don Halquist and Sandra I. Musanti Chapter 7. Pedagogical ethical dilemmas in a responsive evaluation of a leadership program for youth Melissa Freeman and Judith Preissle Chapter 8. Subjectivity and reflexivity: locating the self in research on dislocation Jacqueline Mosselson Chapter 9. Caring reflexivity Sharon F. Rallis and Gretchen B. Rossman
