What, can we do to enable better understanding? What does our pedagogical expertise as educational researchers suggest?

 how I had used participants’ voices in previous reports. I talked about how single words or phrases might be combined with others, or how a sentence might capture an important and unique idea, or express a feeling echoed by numerous others. I talked about why this might be helpful; who might read or hear and how; or to what extent I could ensure their identity was concealed. I also emphasised that if they wanted me to know an idea but not record or attribute it to them that I could interrupt or stop recording.

…heartfelt and revealing…

reflect on whether, as educational researchers, we use our pedagogical expertise not just to feed the relational and empathetic qualities valuable to qualitative research but also fulfil our ethical responsibilities. Enabling participants’ agency and helping them to be fully aware of the ‘possible consequences’ of their involvement in our research

References

Trowsdale, J. (2020) ‘How do we enact ‘informed consent’’. British Educational Research Association. Available at https://www.bera.ac.uk/blog/how-do-we-enact-informed-consent accessed 2.12.23