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Title: | Obtaining informed consent in non-Western contexts: reflections on fieldwork experience Zimbabwe | Authors: | Jeko, Ishwael Mangwaya, Ezron Blignaut, Sylvan |
Keywords: | Social science research, Informed consent, Non-Western contexts | Issue Date: | 6-Jun-2012 | Publisher: | UV/UES | Series/Report no.: | Acta Academica;Vol. 44, No. 4: 184-208 | Abstract: | Current ethics frameworks for regulating social science research scent to be based mainly on Western sociocultural traditions, arguably making it difficult for researchers in non-Western contexts to use them as ethics guides. Yet, these frameworks tend often to be used, un-adapted, as default ethics compasses to guide the conduct of research in non-Western contexts. In tins article, the authors reflect on their experiences in obtaining informed consent for an educational research study in Zimbabwe using a Western-based ethics protocol. The experiences are reflectively interpreted in the context of literature with a view to suggesting some sensitive issues that need to be taken into account when seeking informed consent of research participants its non-Western contexts, particularly in Africa. | URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/11408/1050 | ISSN: | 0537-2405 |
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