Ethics in research including young children: Views and experiences of researchers

87 - 99, 15.01.2020

Çağla Öneren Şendil , Sema Sönmez

https://doi.org/10.17051/ilkonline.2020.644821

Cited By: 1

Abstract

Involving young
children in research is noteworthy since it ensures to understand their world
and values their existence through making experiences and views of children
evident. Ethical considerations in research including children have some core
principles namely justice, beneficence and non-maleficence, and respect.
Through putting those principles and guides into the center, current research
made effort to determine views and experiences of researchers concerning the
ethical issues/dilemmas in research involving preschool aged children. 15
researchers who conducted at least one study with preschool aged children were
reached through criterion sampling. Findings revealed some considerations in
harms and benefits, informed consent, privacy, confidentiality and payment
related issues in the research including young children. Although the fact that
all research should consider ethical 
issues as a prerequisite for studying with human subjects, there should
be some more considerations to conduct research with young children.

Keywords

Early childhood education , ethical principles , ethical dilemmas , child participation , phenomenology

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