I’ve been studying D845 Research methods dissertation in social sciences since the 1st May, now 11 weeks into the course and one of the big learning points for me has been on ethics. In my college days, I would have just rolled out a questionnaire, for example, and not given a single thought on the …
Ensuring your data is encrypted for research I’ve been chatting with a brilliant IT Consultant (please email me if you’d like the contact details) today who has been advising me on how I can ensure my data is secure during my research and to ensure confidentiality of personal data. The information gathered will be subject …
” Knight (2002, p. 188) provides a set of tactics for generating meanings from collected data. Those which are particularly relevant for my research are: Need to keep thinking about the patterns and themes Try to develop stories that draw themes together, offer explanations and give a feeling of understnading Throughout the literature review, I …
It may be more accurate to think of accessible learning as a strategy rather than as a set of policies and that the role of the government is to create the conditions for a learning society. I believe in the notion of strategies to promote learning through work; and technology can help to achieve this. …
I was reading the Ouch pages on BBC today and reading some of the student diaries. What I found interesting about the case studies was the importance of friendship, which I think is something that perhaps may be overlooked. When students are asked about the things that are important in their experience of education one …
The law relating research with children (legally defined as those under 18 years of age) is not clear but a series of principles are proposed in various available guidance (RCPCh, 2000; DOh, 2001, BMA, 2001; RCN, 2003). Guidance is based on concern for children as potentially vulnerable participants as identified in the ‘Declaration of Helsinki’ …
Although the research is low-risk, the primary responsibility of the research to the participants crucially underpins any research. This is particularly pertitent when the participants are children. It is not intended that the research should cause distress but this could happen inadvertently and needs to be recognised as a potential ara of risk. Distress can …
Thoughts on technological change and pedagogy It would be careless to post a direct link between technological change and pedagogy, however, trends are in evidence. It might be that as new technology developed, educators looked for ways in which to use it best and developed different teaching/learning strategies and pedagogies to incorporate it. Also people …
Confidentiality and informed consent underpin any discussion of dignity and rights and the welfare of participants is at risk if dignity and rights are not respected. The Ethical statement by the British Sociological Association will be followed. Power differences are acknowledged and participants (adults and children) will be treated respectfully, fairly and as equals in …
E835, 1997, Educational Research in Action pp33-35 Validity By ‘validity’, we mean truth: the extent to which an account accurately represents the phenomena to which it refers. There are few concepts that have led to more controversy than ‘truth’. Indeed, many educational researchers reject this concept as inapplicable to the assessment of their work. One …