Part 1 Ethical issues and research methods: ethics and tactics - issues arising from an educational survey, David Raffe et al; ethical issues and statistical work, Pamela Sammons; grey areas - ethical dilemmas in educational ethnography, Robert G. Burgess; exploiting the exploited? the ethics of feminist educational research, Sheila Riddell; education or indoctrination? the ethics of school based action research, Alison Kelly; ethics of case study in educational research and evaluation, Helen Simons. Part 2 Ethical issues in empirical research: ethics and the law - conducting case studies of policing, David Eridges; what is evaluation after the MSC?, Jon Nixon; ethics and politics in the study of assessment, Harry Torrance; change and adjustment in a further education college, Pauline Foster; whose side are we on? ethical dilemmas in research on race, Bruce Carrington and Barry Troyna.