New Research Ethics project for Teacher-Researchers awarded European Funding
Dr Aimie Brennan, Dean of Education at Marino Institute of Education, has been awarded funding from the Erasmus+ partnership programme to create a series of resources to boost the research ethics competency of teacher-researchers.
Practitioner research is a powerful approach to investigating practice and maintaining ethical standards is vital for teachers undertaking research. However, teachers in Ireland, and across Europe have limited opportunity to enhance their education research ethics competence either through funded CPD, or through collaboration with professional bodies who give ethics advice.
This project aims to develop innovative digital resources that can be used by teachers who are not affiliated with any university and thus have limited or no ethics oversight for their classroom-based research. The project team will work with teachers to generate resources to enable teacher-researchers to assess their own skills, knowledge & needs with regards to education research ethics; to build the capacity of teachers to engage in classroom-based research in ways that are ethically sound in the absence of ethical oversight; and the resources produced will be informed by the real-world unique ethical dilemmas facing teachers-as-researchers.
The project is being led by Dr Brennan at MIE, in collaboration with a consortium of partners including, Dr Cliodhna Martin, Dr John Carroll and Ms Leah Elsted at MIE; Dr Carla Quesada-Pallarès, Dr Allan-Baez Contreras, Dr Anna Ciraso-Calí, Dr Georgeta Ion and Angelina Sánchez-Martí from Universitat Autónoma Barcelona, Spain; and a team led by Darren Byrne at St Joseph’s Post-Primary School in Dublin.
A call for teachers to join a ‘community of practice’ facilitated by the project will be open shortly. Any questions about participation can be directed to [email protected]