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MacAllister, James; Macleod, Gale; Pirrie, Anne – Ethics and Education, 2013
This article addresses two main questions: (1) what is excellence and (2) should epistemic excellence be the main purpose of education? Though references to excellence have become increasingly frequent in the UK education policy, these questions are perhaps especially important in Scotland where the curriculum is explicitly "for"…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Objectives, Educational Policy, National Curriculum
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Pirrie, Anne; MacAllister, James; Macleod, Gale – Ethics and Education, 2012
This article explores the themes of trust and ethical conduct in social research, with particular attention to the trust that can develop between the members of a research team as well as between researchers and the researched. The authors draw upon a three-year empirical study of destinations and outcomes for young people excluded from…
Descriptors: Trust (Psychology), Ethics, Social Science Research, Researchers