Ethical educational research: what and how?

Anneke van Houwelingen & Rik Vangangelt

When you’re researching your own educational practices and collect data of your students, you have to think about hierarchy, consent, accessibility and trust. Is it possible to use student’s essays for your analysis? How do you prevent that students are subject to interventions that happen for a good cause but are possibly less effective? Are you able to be the teacher and the researcher at the same moment? Do you always have to pitch your research at the ethical committee?

During this session, together with Anneke van Houwelingen and Rik Vangangelt, the audience participates in a dialogue about ethical dilemma’s that arise during the research of practices in Higher Education (i.e. Scholarship of Teaching and learning). Furthermore, they will share some tips and tricks about requesting ethical permission for educational research within your own faculty.

Biography

Dr. Anneke van Houwelingen is associate professor at Utrecht University who is interested in student and teacher motivation and community engaged learning. She initiated a special interest group on motivation, which is facilitated by the Centre of Academic Teaching and Learning (CAT). Furthermore, Anneke is challenged and engaged in the ethical, privacy and legal aspects of scholarly educational research.

Rik Vangangelt is the coordinator of the Educational Scholarship and it’s two pillars of Higher Education Research and Scholarship of Teaching and Learning. In addition, he organizes the annual Utrecht Scholarship of Teaching and Learning conference. At the moment, he is working on his PhD thesis, investigating how Higher Education institutes stimulate and facilitate educational scholarship.