Mom, Dad, and the Research Object: The Ethics of Conducting Research Based on Your Own Children's Everyday Life

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Abstract

Doing research into the everyday lives of one’s own children allows for a unique in-depth insight into the complexities of educational life. This article discusses the ethical dilemmas of this kind of research including issues of power, consent, emotional involvement, objectivity and researcher positioning, arguing that research is always a risk-filled endeavor requiring vigilant ethical astuteness and moment to moment judgements, which are particularly radicalized when doing research with intimate others such as one’s children.
Original languageEnglish
JournalAnthropology & Education Quarterly
Volume49
Issue number3
Pages (from-to)329-339
Number of pages11
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Sept 2018

Keywords

  • Autoethnography
  • children
  • deliberation
  • Denmark
  • ethics
  • everyday life

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