Negotiating Ethical Challenges in Youth Research

Kitty te Riele editor Rachel Brooks editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd

Published:21st Nov '12

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Negotiating Ethical Challenges in Youth Research brings together contributors from across the world to explore real-life ethical dilemmas faced by researchers working with young people in a range of social science disciplines. Unlike literature that tends to discuss youth research at an abstracted and exalted level, this volume aims to make the basic principles and guidelines of youth research more ‘real.’ By openly discussing actual challenges that researchers have experienced in the course of conducting their fieldwork or interpreting their findings, this collection provides the most authentic overview of the ethics of youth research available.

A careful selection of chapters addresses a range of ethical challenges particularly relevant to contemporary youth researchers. Each chapter identifies an ethical issue that the author has personally experienced in his or her youth research, explains why this was a challenge or dilemma, outlines how the researcher responded to the challenge, and provides advice and draws out broader implications for youth researchers. The chapters are organized around three themes that capture core ethical challenges: power and agency, protection and harm prevention, and trust and respect. The result is a collection that is a rigorous and valuable resource to those embarking on research with young people for the first time as well as supporting the resolution of ethical challenges by more experienced researchers.

"This is an interesting and engaging book. ... The book is a very useful text which other researchers will learn from. The empirical chapters could be used by educators to present an outline of one of the studies, and ask student researchers to explore some of the potential ethical conflicts and solutions."—Qualitative Research

ISBN: 9780415808460

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 560g

200 pages