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Culturally responsive relational reflexive ethics in research: the three rs

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In this article, the authors define ethics, discuss why researchers should care about ethics, and briefly review the history of ethics and the surrounding contemporary debate as related to research, the development of research ethics codes, research ethics legislation, and the formation of the human subjects research review boards in the West with an emphasis on the United States’ Institutional Review Board. They then explicate the difference between minimalist ethical codes, which all respected researchers must adhere to, and an aspirational ethical stance. Culturally Responsive Relational Reflexive Ethics (CRRRE) is then advanced as a viable aspirational ethical stance for the research community. Finally, the authors draw on their own research for examples of ethical dilemmas involving ethnicity, age, sexual orientation, and power that CRRRE has helped illuminate.

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  1. University of Northern Colorado, Greeley, CO, USA

    Maria K. E. Lahman, Katrina L. Rodriguez & Kathryn K. DeRoche

  2. Front Range Community College, Westminster, CO, USA

    Monica R. Geist

  3. LeaderShape, Inc., Champaign, IL, USA

    Pamela Graglia

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Lahman, M.K.E., Geist, M.R., Rodriguez, K.L. et al. Culturally responsive relational reflexive ethics in research: the three rs. Qual Quant 45, 1397–1414 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11135-010-9347-3

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