Background: Digital storytelling (DST) has been embraced in classrooms around the world as a way to unpack issues of identity and positionality which are critical for any pedagogy concerned with social justice. However, adopting this process-orientated practice into higher education raises ethical concerns especially in relation to the normative approach to traditional research. Objectives: The objective of this article was to explore the ethical concerns surrounding DST when used as a pedagogy and to determine if an ‘ethics of care’ approach could help to mitigate the ethical dilemmas experienced by teachers and researchers alike. Method: A single case study, narratives, illustrations and reflections from a final-year arts education project were used to explore some of the ethical issues we encountered when employing DST as a pedagogy and in educational research. Results: The results of this reflection show that special attention needs to be paid to the following issues: the collection and interpretation of data, how anonymity and confidentiality are ensured in DST, who owns the stories, how sampling is conducted and how consent is sought and, finally, how the tenant of ‘do no harm’ is adhered to in DST. Conclusion: We argue that traditional deontological approaches to ethics are not able to fully respond to the complex, nuanced and ongoing concerns posed by DST projects. We adopt Joan Tronto’s Ethic of Care to argue that ethical practice cannot be contained in codes of conduct alone and cannot simply be signed off on by institutional review boards, but is rather a matter of a daily personal, professional and political caring practice.

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房间里的大象：规范研究与高等教育数字故事护理伦理之间的紧张关系

背景：数字叙事（DST）已被世界各地的教室所采用，作为一种解决身份和地位问题的方法，这对于任何与社会正义有关的教学法都是至关重要的。但是，在高等教育中采用这种以过程为导向的实践引起了伦理方面的关注，尤其是在传统研究的规范方法方面。目标：本文的目的是探讨在将DST用作教学法时围绕DST的伦理问题，并确定“护理伦理”方法是否可以帮助减轻教师和研究人员所经历的伦理困境。方法：单个案例研究，叙述，最后一年的艺术教育项目的插图和反思被用来探索我们在将DST用作教学法和教育研究时遇到的一些道德问题。结果：反映的结果表明，需要特别注意以下问题：数据的收集和解释，DST如何确保匿名和保密，谁拥有故事，如何进行抽样以及如何寻求同意。最后，DST如何遵守“不伤害”的租户。结论：我们认为，传统的道义论伦理学方法不能完全解决DST项目带来的复杂，细微差别和持续的问题。