{"id":1391,"date":"2016-08-11T11:23:13","date_gmt":"2016-08-11T09:23:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.uni-bremen.de\/aboriginalstudiesclasses\/?page_id=1391"},"modified":"2016-08-11T19:13:18","modified_gmt":"2016-08-11T17:13:18","slug":"reflection-on-the-ethical-requirements","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uni-bremen.de\/aboriginalstudiesclasses\/reflection\/reflection-on-the-ethical-requirements\/","title":{"rendered":"Reflection on the ethical requirements"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My research was complicated and its findings\u00a0influenced\u00a0by the <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.uni-bremen.de\/aboriginalstudiesclasses\/about-the-research\/ethical-requirements\/\">strict ethical standards<\/a> to which I had to adhere. While I was still in the process of seeking ethical approval from the university&#8217;s Human Research Ethics Committee, I was not allowed to begin my participant observations or to even take simple notes during classes which I meant to use for my research. By the time I received their approval, there was only <strong>one last session<\/strong> left of every class. To gain more data, I had to go back and examine the notes I had taken during the classes <em>for<\/em> the classes, <strong>trying to remember<\/strong> the context in which the information was conveyed and the methods used by the lecturers and tutors. Thus, interesting <strong>details might be missing<\/strong> and <strong>impressions of earlier class sessions might be influenced and altered<\/strong> by the increased experience I had made by the end of the semester.<\/p>\n<p>The standards of the Ethics Commission also included the requirement that would need to <strong>inform every single participant<\/strong> in detail and receive written approval from them\u00a0even if it was just a student which I\u00a0observed\u00a0as part of the class and then mentioned anonymously in my data. As this procedure was impossible due to students&#8217;\u00a0weekly changing presence in class and the\u00a0short time left before the end of the semester, I had to <strong>drastically limit my participant observations<\/strong> to the lecturers and tutors. Thus, I do not have any observational data regarding the actual extent of the students&#8217; active engagement in the class which is repeatedly described\u00a0 by L3.<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, the strict anonymisation of the participants led to a <strong>disembodiment and dislocation of their knowledge and information<\/strong>. This is particularly unfortunate as knowledge in Aboriginal cultures is seen as something which is strongly connected to place and to the knower. Originally, I planned to, with their permission, include <strong>photos, videos and audio recordings<\/strong> of participants on the blogs. Even discussing this idea with them, however, was made impossible through the regulations of the Ethics Committee. Thus, the blog became far <strong>less culturally appropriate and visual-learner friendly<\/strong> than planned.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>For more information on the ethical requirements of this research, please click <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.uni-bremen.de\/aboriginalstudiesclasses\/about-the-research\/ethical-requirements\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><strong>Reflection\u00a0on my position in the field<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/span>I entered the field as an outsider in two respects&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.uni-bremen.de\/aboriginalstudiesclasses\/reflection\/reflection-on-my-position-in-the-field\/\">read more<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My research was complicated and its findings\u00a0influenced\u00a0by the strict ethical standards to which I had to adhere. While I was still in the process of seeking ethical approval from the university&#8217;s Human Research Ethics Committee, I was not allowed to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.uni-bremen.de\/aboriginalstudiesclasses\/reflection\/reflection-on-the-ethical-requirements\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2625,"featured_media":0,"parent":199,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1391","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uni-bremen.de\/aboriginalstudiesclasses\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uni-bremen.de\/aboriginalstudiesclasses\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uni-bremen.de\/aboriginalstudiesclasses\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uni-bremen.de\/aboriginalstudiesclasses\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2625"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uni-bremen.de\/aboriginalstudiesclasses\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1391"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uni-bremen.de\/aboriginalstudiesclasses\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1391\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1485,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uni-bremen.de\/aboriginalstudiesclasses\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1391\/revisions\/1485"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uni-bremen.de\/aboriginalstudiesclasses\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uni-bremen.de\/aboriginalstudiesclasses\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}