Selected ethical dilemmas and legal problems in autoethnographic research
Selected ethical dilemmas and legal problems in autoethnographic research

Summary/Abstract: The aim of this article is the presentation and analysis of the selected ethical dilemmasand legal problems of a researcher in the study of the difficult way of life. There area lot of questions about the ethical, decent and legal manner of research and behaviour inrelation with the participators of the research. The practical aim of this article is the answerto the question – what should we do when we have various ethical dilemmas in our studies.A special difficult situation concerns the researcher – a pedagogue of social rehabilitation,because by conducting research on the phenomena of social exclusion or social pathology,he/she describes and analyses situations related to crime, para-criminal behaviours, addictions,touches the problems of deep diagnosis of disorders or therapy. During scientific research,he/she ‘goes deeper’ into difficult situations, ethical dilemmas, and brushes againstlegal problems. The guarantee of his/her safety, but above all the safety of respondents, isthe legal awareness and ethical responsibility of the pedagogue.Although the article is not a complete and comprehensive study, it responds to the needs ofresearchers who themselves have to answer many questions about legal issues and solve anyethical dilemmas themselves in the process of collecting and developing data.

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