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Condescending ethics and action research

Extended review article

Olav Eikeland

Work Research Institute, Oslo

The article outlines ethical aspects of action research at two different levels: philosophical and ‘applied’. It also emphasizes ethical aspects of practitioner research and conventional social research tacitly implied in the relations between researchers and researched presupposed by the two approaches. Conventional research ethics is insufficient for grasping these aspects, since it is constituted within the relations assumed by conventional research. Conventional research ethics is also claimed to be a ‘condescending ethics’ unfit for action research because of its practice of ‘othering’ human beings as research subjects. This article interprets many ethical dilemmas experienced by action researchers as ‘othering-effects’, only to be overcome through the establishment of peer communities of inquiry among combined ‘practitioners-researchers-researched’. It uses a book on ethics and action research as a starting point for reflections about the very real challenges of creating peer communities of inquiry doing action/practitioner research.

Key Words: action research and philosophical ethics • communities of inquiry • condescending • ethics • going native • insider research • othering • othering-effects • practitioner research • practitioners researchers-researched • research ethics

Action Research, Vol. 4, No. 1, 37-47 (2006)
DOI: 10.1177/1476750306060541
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