Revista Iberoamericana sobre Calidad, Eficacia y Cambio en Educación (Jun 2016)

Research Ethics: From the Codes of Conduct to the Formation of the Ethical Sense

  • Héctor Opazo Carvajal

Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 2

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Aware of the multiplicity of factors that contemporary educational research is exposed and the existence of specific ethical problems emerging in new ways of knowledge production, this article aims, from the review of the principal ethical codes there are exist, start propose action of protection against unethical behavior.Training in the construction of meaning-making ethical decisions (sensemaking) in research appears as an interesting alternative because it would pre-empt any possible errors and ethical lapses, making possible developing ethical research practices. These ethical considerations are presented as an obligation both to our investigative work, as to our participants, to our profession and the education as a whole.

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