Ethical frameworks – teacher notes
Ways your students can address ethical issues
Activity 1 has set the scene for an introduction to ethical frameworks – ways of thinking about ethical issues. The student materials describe three commonly used frameworks (consequentialist/utilitarian, rights and duties, virtue ethics), all of which can readily be employed when thinking about right/wrong actions both in the context of research ethics and more generally.
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Introducing ethics – teacher notes
What ethical issues do your students need to think about and how can these be addressed?
Ethical research – teacher notes
Attention now turns specifically to research ethics, explored through three activities and illustrated by two case studies
Right from the start – teacher notes
This section emphasises that an ethical approach to project work starts with the planning