Obtaining informed consent in non-Western contexts: reflections on fieldwork experience Zimbabwe
Current ethics frameworks for regulating social science research scent to be based mainly on Western sociocultural traditions, arguably making it difficult for researchers in non-Western contexts to use them as ethics guides. Yet, these frameworks tend often to be used, un-adapted, as default ethic...
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| author | Jeko, Ishwael Mangwaya, Ezron Blignaut, Sylvan |
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| description | Current ethics frameworks for regulating social science research scent to be based mainly on
Western sociocultural traditions, arguably making it difficult for researchers in non-Western contexts to use them as ethics guides. Yet, these frameworks tend often to be used, un-adapted, as default ethics compasses to guide the conduct of research in non-Western contexts. In tins article, the authors reflect on their experiences in obtaining informed consent for an educational research study in Zimbabwe using a Western-based ethics protocol. The experiences are reflectively interpreted in the context of literature with a view to suggesting some sensitive issues that need to be taken into account when seeking informed consent of research participants its non-Western contexts, particularly in Africa. |
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| spelling | ir-11408-10502022-06-27T13:49:06Z Obtaining informed consent in non-Western contexts: reflections on fieldwork experience Zimbabwe Jeko, Ishwael Mangwaya, Ezron Blignaut, Sylvan Social science research, Informed consent, Non-Western contexts Current ethics frameworks for regulating social science research scent to be based mainly on Western sociocultural traditions, arguably making it difficult for researchers in non-Western contexts to use them as ethics guides. Yet, these frameworks tend often to be used, un-adapted, as default ethics compasses to guide the conduct of research in non-Western contexts. In tins article, the authors reflect on their experiences in obtaining informed consent for an educational research study in Zimbabwe using a Western-based ethics protocol. The experiences are reflectively interpreted in the context of literature with a view to suggesting some sensitive issues that need to be taken into account when seeking informed consent of research participants its non-Western contexts, particularly in Africa. 2016-04-26T12:34:07Z 2016-04-26T12:34:07Z 2012-06-06 Article 0537-2405 http://hdl.handle.net/11408/1050 en Acta Academica;Vol. 44, No. 4: 184-208 open UV/UES |
| spellingShingle | Social science research, Informed consent, Non-Western contexts Jeko, Ishwael Mangwaya, Ezron Blignaut, Sylvan Obtaining informed consent in non-Western contexts: reflections on fieldwork experience Zimbabwe |
| title | Obtaining informed consent in non-Western contexts: reflections on fieldwork experience Zimbabwe |
| title_full | Obtaining informed consent in non-Western contexts: reflections on fieldwork experience Zimbabwe |
| title_fullStr | Obtaining informed consent in non-Western contexts: reflections on fieldwork experience Zimbabwe |
| title_full_unstemmed | Obtaining informed consent in non-Western contexts: reflections on fieldwork experience Zimbabwe |
| title_short | Obtaining informed consent in non-Western contexts: reflections on fieldwork experience Zimbabwe |
| title_sort | obtaining informed consent in non-western contexts: reflections on fieldwork experience zimbabwe |
| topic | Social science research, Informed consent, Non-Western contexts |
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