Looking at the topic of ethics I feel the key thing that I have
learnt is that ethics are personal! There is a basic ethical framework that
everyone should come across and understand but that can easily be adapted or
changed to suit the surroundings or peoples personalities. What one person
could hold as something highly ethical someone else could simple disregard, or
not hold it as highly.
Ethics is knowing the difference between what you have a
right to do and what is right to do.
Ethics can be changed or viewed differently because of the motivation behind it;
Ethics can be changed or viewed differently because of the motivation behind it;
Deontologist: always wrong
Virtue Ethicist: moral behaviour & character as important
as action.
From talking to co workers, my employers and fellow students I have learnt that when I undergo my professional inquiry I need to not only think of my own professional ethics but also try to adhere to other peoples that I am inquiring of.
The British Educational Research Association (BERA)
have a suggested research responsibilities list which I have read through and
can be found on there website;
Looking at these guidelines I have noted that it is my
responsibility as the researcher to keep all my research truthful and on point
to the topic that I am researching into, keeping it legitimate and honest in my
findings and not going of the path of the research that I am doing as to not
personally effect the people that I am researching into. Also to keep as much
documentation on my research as possible, So that there is as much proof as
possible that I am researching in an ethically correct way and for the best interests
of the people that I am researching.
That is for a
general professional inquiry for the inquiry I am looking into I would be
researching into children so I feel more ethical points need to be address, I need
to make sure I have the full consent of the parents and the safety of the
children I am researching is highly noted and respected at all times.
In conclusion
I have learnt that professional ethics is no written word, it is a feeling you
have personally. The difference between right and wrong and following that
feeling to achieve truthful research.
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