COMMUNITY ACTION: VALUE OR INSTRUMENT? AN ETHICS AND PLANNING CRITICAL REVIEW

Community-based research ethics review: reflections on experience and recommendations for action.

Research participants, researchers, and organizations that fund research share an interest in ensuring that the research meets high ethical standards. When community-based research (CBR) projects are developed, a number of significant questions emerge for all of those involved in the research about how to achieve such standards. Some of these questions are: how do community groups deal with the...

Development and Validation of an Instrument to Evaluate English Language Teachers' Lesson Planning Self-concept

This study aimed to develop and validate an instrument to evaluate English language teachers’ lesson plan- ning self-concept. To this end, 30 English teachers were asked to prepare a sample lesson plan and 15 of them were invited to participate in a semi-structured interview. A tentative questionnaire including six fac- tors namely: classroom management, lesson planning conformity, planning eff...

Action Research: The National Medical Ethics Film and Photo Festival; an Experience Report

The National Medical Ethics Film & Photo Festival was held in February 2020 and ended with the registration of 487 works which 80 films and 36 photographs of them were finally selected and peer reviewed. The present article focuses on the films of this festival and tries to explain the experience of attracting, selecting, and judging films through the design and holding a festival by using acti...

Critical Virtue Ethics

Since the publication of Anscombe’s famous paper “Modern Moral Philosophy” (1958), virtue ethics has become a matter of discussion among scholars. At least four charges have been raised against virtue ethics, one of which is the charge of promoting undue enthusiasm regarding the moral fitness of human beings. This article explores the limits of virtue ethics with regard to the frailty of human ...

Mass critical care ethics: black and white, or grey?