Task 5C.

Looking at the topic of ethics I feel the key thing that I have learnt is that ethics are personal! There is a basic ethical framework that everyone should come across and understand but that can easily be adapted or changed to suit the surroundings or peoples personalities. What one person could hold as something highly ethical someone else could simple disregard, or not hold it as highly.

 A quote I found by former supreme court justice Potter Stuart;

Ethics is knowing the difference between what you have a right to do and what is right to do.
  Ethics can be changed or viewed differently because of the motivation behind it;

 Consequentialist: could be acceptable for a greater good

Deontologist: always wrong

Virtue Ethicist: moral behaviour & character as important as action.

 So again this goes back to my point that ethics goes back to the person itself and justifying the action behind it.

 
           From talking to co workers, my employers and fellow students I have learnt that when I undergo my professional inquiry I need to not only think of my own professional ethics but also try to adhere to other peoples that I am inquiring of.

            The British Educational Research Association (BERA) have a suggested research responsibilities list which I have read through and can be found on there website;

http://www.bera.ac.uk/publications/ethical-guidelines

Looking at these guidelines I have noted that it is my responsibility as the researcher to keep all my research truthful and on point to the topic that I am researching into, keeping it legitimate and honest in my findings and not going of the path of the research that I am doing as to not personally effect the people that I am researching into. Also to keep as much documentation on my research as possible, So that there is as much proof as possible that I am researching in an ethically correct way and for the best interests of the people that I am researching.

            That is for a general professional inquiry for the inquiry I am looking into I would be researching into children so I feel more ethical points need to be address, I need to make sure I have the full consent of the parents and the safety of the children I am researching is highly noted and respected at all times.

                        In conclusion I have learnt that professional ethics is no written word, it is a feeling you have personally. The difference between right and wrong and following that feeling to achieve truthful research.