Golding, Jennie;
(2025)
The ethics of navigating curriculum implementation research in collaboration with edu-business: Challenges to openness, transparency and trustworthiness.
Presented at: Centre for Qualitative Research symposium 2025: Transparency, Openness and Rigour, Bath, UK.
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Abstract
I draw on a large, longitudinal ‘classroom-close’ study carried out 2016-23 as five linked components that between them drew data from mathematics classrooms of 5-18 year old learners. The focus was the ways in which teachers and learners implement a mathematics curriculum with a renewed focus on mathematical processes that are known to be demanding – mathematical reasoning, problem-solving and communication. Of particular interest was the use teachers and learners made of both curriculum and assessment materials produced by the market leader in such mathematics materials, here conceptualised as an ‘edu-business’. The studies drew considerably on the voices of learners (and teachers) within that. Between them, they have supported a range of developments in funder and national policy and practice, and have also led to theoretical developments in the field. Critically, the studies were funded by the edu-business in question. I was employed as an independent researcher, and led a team of five other subject- and phase-expert researchers across the studies, as well as several edu-business internal ‘researchers’ who functioned as research assistants. In this presentation, I interrogate the ethical challenges around research transparency, openness and trustworthiness both inherent in such arrangements, and those that emerged during the course of the studies in relation to the researcher-edu-business collaboration. I ask in particular: • Do these ethical tensions of the collaboration warrant the impact on learning achieved? • How do such tensions vary with the age/stage of the focus learners?
| Type: | Conference item (Presentation) |
|---|---|
| Title: | The ethics of navigating curriculum implementation research in collaboration with edu-business: Challenges to openness, transparency and trustworthiness |
| Event: | Centre for Qualitative Research symposium 2025: Transparency, Openness and Rigour |
| Location: | Bath, UK |
| Dates: | 28 - 29 January 2025 |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| Publisher version: | https://www.bath.ac.uk/research-centres/centre-for... |
| Language: | English |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education > IOE - Curriculum, Pedagogy and Assessment |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10204524 |
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