Bruce Macfarlane

Researching with Integrity

The Ethics of Academic Enquiry

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Illustrated throughout with short narratives detailing ethical issues and dilemmas from interntional academic researchers representing different disciplines, research cultures and national contexts, this books proposes an alternative approach to research which provides all research professionals with the intellectual tools they need to cope with complex research.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 190
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 152mm x 8mm
• Gewicht: 295g
• ISBN-13: 9780415429047
• ISBN-10: 0415429048
• Artikelnr.: 24705919

Autorenporträt

Bruce Macfarlane is Professor of Higher Education at the University of Portsmouth (UK) where he is also Head of Academic Development. His previous books include Teaching with Integrity and The Academic Citizen. He is a Vice Chair of the Society for Research into Higher Education.

Inhaltsangabe

@contents:TABLE OF CONTENTS Pages
Foreword by Stephen Rowland v-vi
Preface vii
Acknowledgements viii
Introduction
Part A: From principles to virtue
1: The legacy of Nuremberg
2: Challenging principles
3: Developing integrity
Part B: Living the virtues
4: Courage
5: Respectfulness
6: Resoluteness
7: Sincerity
8: Humility
9: Reflexivity
Part C: Integrating integrity
10: The performative culture
11: Learning about virtue
12: The good professor
Bibliography
Index
Narrative index Page
4.1 Crossing the boundary 71
1. The complexities of `confidentiality¿
2. Experimenting with the environment
3. Interviewing the vulnerable
4. Permissions and pressure
5. The ethics of attraction
6.1 Repeating the experiment
6.2 Slow progress
1. Trusting the proof
2. Trimming the data
1. A tempting citation
2. Getting the order right
3. Credit where credit is due
1. Politics and personalities
2. The agreeable interviewer