Ethical Research Involving Children

‘Do you get some funny looks when you tell people what you do?’ Muddling through some angsts and ethics of (being a male) researching with children.

Horton, J. (2001). ‘Do you get some funny looks when you tell people what you do?’ Muddling through some angsts and ethics of (being a male) researching with children. Ethics, Place & Environment, 4(2). pp. 159-166.

This paper is an attempt – and a plea – to get real about the ethics of practising social science ‘with children rather than on or for children’. It is written from and in response to a troubling question: why (when I am ‘police cleared’ and my research is ‘ethical’ in terms of legality, professional codes of practice and notions of…(incomplete abstract on publisher’s site).
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