Ethical Guardrails When Children Participate in Research: Risk and Practice in Sweden and Australia

This article investigates interpretations of sound research ethics in social science research involving children as framed through regulation. Coinciding with an emergent significance being given to research that involves children, debate has developed regarding whether particular ethical considerat...

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Published in:SAGE open 2014-07, Vol.4 (3), p.1
Main Authors: Harcourt, Deborah, Quennerstedt, Ann
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Education
Pedagogik
research ethics
research with children
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Summary:This article investigates interpretations of sound research ethics in social science research involving children as framed through regulation. Coinciding with an emergent significance being given to research that involves children, debate has developed regarding whether particular ethical considerations are warranted in this type of research. We overlay the examination of regulation documents in Sweden and Australia with an interpretative lens drawn from these regulations that has the potential to position children as competent social actors in the research process. We then argue that there is possibility for ethical procedures to be viewed not only as risk management but also as beneficial research practice to stimulate continuing debate about how to work ethically in social science research when children are participants.
ISSN:2158-2440
2158-2440
DOI:10.1177/2158244014543782