research ethics

Because I want to incorporate guided movement with children into my project this was some very helpful information. Children are able to say whether or not they want to participate in an activity but truly aren't able to supply "informed consent" because, well they can't quite be informed. Understanding what they're participating is the job of their parents; it is my job to make this understood. Reducing risks and coming up with a simple, describable activity is my task. I can't sit down with each parent and have a question and answer session. I can do that with the teachers at the day school but not with each parent. This is actually making me consider doing the group performance piece. I feel that it would be easier to have a line of communication about what we're undertaking with a group of people (of many ages!) who have clearly taken the project on. I feel like it would be very possible to simply bring movement activity to the day school without necessarily making it a research project, except in the sense that I am the subject of the research. It really is about practice and experimenting with my facilitating techniques than observing and recording changes in the children.