Document Type	Master's Dissertation
Author	Whittingham, Elacia
Email	elaciaw@gmail.com
URN	etd-12202011-152231
Document Title	How educational psychologists conceptualise risk in research
Degree	MEd
Department	Educational Psychology
Supervisor	Advisor Name Title Dr S Human-Vogel Supervisor
Keywords	educational psychologist researcher non-malevolence benevolence autonomy benefit in research risk in research informed consent
Date	2011-09-05
Availability	restricted
Abstract The study is aimed at understanding how educational psychology researchers conceptualise risk in research particularly in relation to the informed consent process. Literature from Crow, G., Wiles, R., Heath, S. & Charles, V. (2006); Flewitt, R. (2005); Heath, S., Charles, V., Crow, G. & Wiles, R. (2007) was consulted. I anticipate that the findings will make a contribution to the applications made to the ethical committee when conducting research with children. The research project was qualitative with a thematic analysis being done from an a priori epistemology. The findings of the research study are that educational psychology researchers are not reporting the risk inherent in their research adequately, if at all to their participants. The study revealed a cognitive dissonance between educational psychologists concept of risk and actual risk posed by research. The informed consent form was not made available to the participants as it should have been. Greater reflexivity when preparing research may decrease the dissonance and therefore the risk to participants of research. Copyright © 2010, University of Pretoria. All rights reserved. The copyright in this work vests in the University of Pretoria. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the University of Pretoria Please cite as follows: Whittingham, E 2010, How educational psychologists conceptualise risk in research, MEd mini-dissertation, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, viewed yymmdd < http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-12202011-152231 / > F11/9/37/gm
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