Ethical Reflections on Ethnographic Exposure of Exclusion in PBL Group-learning
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Ethical Reflections on Ethnographic Exposure of Exclusion in PBL Group-learning. / Christensen, Gerd.
Thinking Critically and Ethically about Research for Education: Engaging with Voice and Empowerment in International Contexts. red. / Alison Fox; Hugh Busher; Carmel Capewell. Routledge, 2021. s. 107-119.Publikation: Bidrag til bog/antologi/rapport › Bidrag til bog/antologi › Forskning › fagfællebedømt
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TY - CHAP
T1 - Ethical Reflections on Ethnographic Exposure of Exclusion in PBL Group-learning
AU - Christensen, Gerd
PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - This chapter will address ethnographic exposure of exclusion in group learning: Problem-based learning at Danish universities. The empirical data consists of qualitative interviews in groups and individually with students, teachers and administrators, a qualitative questionnaire, an ethnographic field study of students working in groups and a number of texts about small-group-learning. The research project was founded on, firstly, a curiosity in what is actually going on when students are left to themselves in the PBL-groups. Secondly, the project was inspired by Michel Foucault’s concepts of power, subjectification and critique in this case of the way groups are naturalized in the Danish pedagogical discourse as fundamentally good and unproblematic – which is far from the student’s experiences. Thus, the values were attached to doing critical research in a Foucauldian sense. Although conventional ethical principles and practices of informed consent, opportunities to withdraw and anonymisation were followed, on reflection the author is uncertain if the participants were directly empowered by the research. This chapter uses the concept of ethos i.e. an obligation for the researcher to rethink the researcher role and, to paraphrase Foucault, what they are doing with what they are doing, which may be equivalent with giving the participants a voice.
AB - This chapter will address ethnographic exposure of exclusion in group learning: Problem-based learning at Danish universities. The empirical data consists of qualitative interviews in groups and individually with students, teachers and administrators, a qualitative questionnaire, an ethnographic field study of students working in groups and a number of texts about small-group-learning. The research project was founded on, firstly, a curiosity in what is actually going on when students are left to themselves in the PBL-groups. Secondly, the project was inspired by Michel Foucault’s concepts of power, subjectification and critique in this case of the way groups are naturalized in the Danish pedagogical discourse as fundamentally good and unproblematic – which is far from the student’s experiences. Thus, the values were attached to doing critical research in a Foucauldian sense. Although conventional ethical principles and practices of informed consent, opportunities to withdraw and anonymisation were followed, on reflection the author is uncertain if the participants were directly empowered by the research. This chapter uses the concept of ethos i.e. an obligation for the researcher to rethink the researcher role and, to paraphrase Foucault, what they are doing with what they are doing, which may be equivalent with giving the participants a voice.
KW - Faculty of Humanities
KW - Etik, projektbaseret undervisning, grupper, Foucault
M3 - Book chapter
SP - 107
EP - 119
BT - Thinking Critically and Ethically about Research for Education
A2 - Fox, Alison
A2 - Busher, Hugh
A2 - Capewell, Carmel
PB - Routledge
ER -
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