Ethics of research in education: An agenda for discussion

[From Introduction] In which ever paradigm researchers choose to locate their work, they try to ensure the trustworthiness or validity of its outcomes by enacting it within a rigorous framework that addresses the epistemological complexities of a study’s methodological process and intellectual focus. Research is a form of disciplined inquiry that holds at its core certain principles, and aims to contribute to a body of knowledge or theory ‘as carefully and accurately as possible [to] develop knowledge for, in and of society’ (Pring, 2000: 143).