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By its very nature ethnography is an emergent methodology. To be ethical the ethnographer needs to manage research ethics in-situ. This need to manage ethical dilemmas as they arise often comes into conflict with increased ethical regulation and procedures from ethics review boards that require the researcher to foresee ethical quandaries before data collection commences. These regulations can constrain the emerging purpose of the study, evolving means of data collection and multifaceted ways of interacting with participants that are seen as being the strengths of undertaking an ethnographic approach.
The chapters in this volume problematise this tension and highlight the importance of managing ethics in-situ by reflecting on recently completed and current projects drawing out ethical dilemmas relating to data ownership, dissemination, representation, social justice and managing ethnographic studies in the midst of a global pandemic and Covid-19 lockdowns.
Reflecting on these experiences of doing educational ethnography with children and young people, drawing on a diverse range of studies conducted in England, Scotland, South America, India, and the Basque Country, this volume argues that administrative and conceptual change is needed to ensure that ethics does not become a tick box exercise but that ethnographers commit fully to conscientiously managing ethics in-situ.
Contents
Chapter 1. Is this ethical? Using this Question as a Starting Point; Lisa Russell
Chapter 2. The Many Worlds of Ethics: Proposing a Latourian Investigation of the Work of Research Ethics in Ethnographies of Education; Jonathan Tummons
Chapter 3. Managing Ethics When Working with Young People and Children; Lisa Russell and Ruth Barley
Chapter 4. Research Ethics: Reflections from Fieldwork with Children in India; Poonam Sharma
Chapter 5. Revisiting the Ethics of Basque Educational Ethnographic Research Based on a Post-Qualitative Inquiry: A Proposal for Inclusive Ethics; Elizabeth Pérez-Izaguirre, José Miguel Correa Gorospe, and Eider Chaves-Gallastegui
Chapter 6. Maintaining Participant Integrity: Ethics and Fieldwork in Online Video Games; Matilda Ståhl and Fredrik Rusk
Chapter 7. Adapting Ethnographic Methods in the Light of the Covid-19 Pandemic: Scottish Country Dancing; Yang Zhao
Chapter 8. Ethical Dilemmas and Reflections in a Collaborative Study with Children during the Pandemic; Diana Milstein, Regina Coeli Machado e Silva, and Angeles Clemente
Chapter 9. Ethics and Ethnographies of Education: Current Themes and New Directions; Jonathan Tummons
