Ethical Dilemmas in Qualitative Research: A Critical Literature Review

Taquette, Stella Regina; Souza, Luciana Maria Borges da Matta

doi:10.1177/16094069221078731

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“…The interviews were planned and applied with all the scientific, technical, and ethical guarantees usually recommended by experts (Flick, 2022;Taquette and Borges da Matta Souza, 2022). Care was taken to ensure that the interviewees understood the questions, with prior clarification of the meaning of the interview and the terms used.…”

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I do the best i can: The role of immigrant parents in their children’s educational inclusion

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The research highlights the importance of immigrant parents assuming a leading and mediating role in the processes of school adjustment and their children’s educational inclusion. However, the difficulties that parents have to face as a consequence of the migration process are not always taken into account. These families have to face their own acculturation processes and reorganize their roles in the host society. This study analyses the functions that immigrant parents carry out in the new school context in order to favor the educational inclusion of their children. The analysis is approached from the parents’ perspective, in order to understand the way in which families live and try to favor their children’s access, participation and success at school. Ethnographic research and the use of qualitative techniques such as in-depth interviews are used. The perceptions of three immigrant fathers and seven immigrant mothers with different backgrounds and nationalities in a public school in Huelva (Andalusia, Spain) are analyzed. The results point to the great fragility and difficulty experienced by these parents in exercising their parental functions in the new context. Women, especially those from Poland, Lithuania, and Romania, compared to their husbands or partners, seem to suffer greater stress due to their dual role as guarantors of the culture of origin and facilitators of the host culture. In order to favor the educational inclusion of their children, parents prioritize – primarily – access to resources, but also the monitoring of their children’s homework and emotional support. However, a relationship model based on cultural assimilation prevails. Among the factors that condition the behavior of parents are their economic vulnerability, lack of knowledge of the language, limited social support, cultural differences and prejudices. The importance of the school supporting parents, and especially mothers, in their acculturation processes and their relationship with the school is underlined. In this endeavor, it is essential to count on the collaboration of different agents, such as intercultural counselors or other parents in the school.

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“…The conceptual background applied to this analysis is the “ethics-as-process” framework (Cutcliffe & Ramcharan, 2002; Gibson et al, 2013; Ramcharan & Cutcliffe, 2001). Based on this framework and deriving from the emergent nature of qualitative research and hindrances to project approvals at Research Ethics Committees (RECs)(Taquette et al, 2022), ethical issues (both anticipated and evolving) should be noticed and addressed throughout the research process, rather than viewed as a one-time discrete event that is dealt with before or at the onset of the research. Doing so reflects the notion that research ethics is standardized and applied regardless of the specific context (Mattingly, 2005).…”

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“Could You Help Me Die?”: On the Ethics of Researcher-Participant Relationship and the Limitations of Qualitative Research

Sperling

2022

International Journal of Qualitative Methods

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Qualitative research is beneficial for researchers and society, and even for the participants themselves. Yet, end-of-life qualitative research also entails unique challenges given the sensitive topic and questions relayed to the participants, and the participants’ requests of the researchers. This paper was written following ethical issues that arose while conducting in-depth interviews with Israeli members of the Swiss Dignitas Organization in 2019. The interviews enabled participants to air their thoughts on assisted suicide and gather information about related plans that were not available to the public due to various issues. Yet, during these interviews, I also found myself dealing with significant ethical dilemmas that I had not previously encountered, such as participants asking me to lie for them, or accompany them to Switzerland to fulfil their wishes. While the interviews served as a safe environment in which the participants could air their thoughts on the topic, they led me to reexamine the ethical limitations of qualitative research and the researcher-participant relationship (within and outside the research context). By analyzing three of these interviews, I attempted to answer the following research question: What do the ethics of qualitative research entail with regards to researcher-participant boundaries, as established in sensitive situations and that involve vulnerable populations in end-of-life situations? The analysis was conducted in line with the ethical mindfulness framework and combined theoretical analysis of the literature. My analysis indicates that while qualitative research encourages the establishing of a researcher-participant relationship through trust and rapport – especially on sensitive topics that involve vulnerable populations – the researcher must also ensure both participant and researcher safety, by establishing and maintaining boundaries, even post-research. Introspective ethical inquiry, triggered by participants, requires the researcher to be vulnerable, potentially resulting in emotional discomfort. It also mandates re-engaging with the participants on ethical meanings that stem from this process.

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“…The main characteristic of this research was the challenge of understanding in depth the problem of selective garbage collection, which is typical of qualitative studies, as shown by the studies by Shelton, Philbin and Ramanadhan (2022), Taquette and Souza (2022), Harley and Cornelissen (2022) and Shaw et al (2022). It took as a unit of analysis the individuals residing in the city of Manaus, with a level of organizational analysis and perspective of synchronic analysis.…”

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Difficulties in performing selective waste collection in the city of Manaus, Brazil

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Nascimento-e-Silva²

2022

RSD

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Scientific studies have increasingly shown that what is garbage is wasted resources, solid and of other natures. Much of this waste is generated inside urban and rural households, forcing citizens to rethink their commitment to reusing what many still consider garbage. This study aimed to explain the main difficulties in managing selective waste collection in Manaus, Brazil. It used the survey method to generate an in-depth explanation of how these difficulties occur, inverting the traditional logic of this method. Data were collected through an electronic questionnaire with open questions, organized and analyzed using semantic techniques, and the results were generated with the recommendations of the scientific-technological method. The conclusion presents six distinct and interconnected types of difficulties that prevent the effectiveness of selective waste collection in the city.

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Ethical Dilemmas in Qualitative Research: A Critical Literature Review

Cited by 40 publications

References 59 publications

I do the best i can: The role of immigrant parents in their children’s educational inclusion

I do the best i can: The role of immigrant parents in their children’s educational inclusion

“Could You Help Me Die?”: On the Ethics of Researcher-Participant Relationship and the Limitations of Qualitative Research

Difficulties in performing selective waste collection in the city of Manaus, Brazil

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