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Todd & Debbie:

The question seems to me always like prostitution.  How far can we go
against our beliefs in order to secure material and professional security?
How much do we change our values in order to become part of a system which
we only perpetuate by prostituting our beliefs?  I left a country because I
was not willing to do so with my own.  For a while I held back with my own
voice because I felt the need for being accepted.  But I feel that it is
not worth.  And now I am pushing in my ownb field the limits of what can be
accepted.  E.g, I have submitted a paper which was edited by 10 grade 11
students (1/4 of the participants), and currently complete a paper in which
one student is a participant and co-author, in which we use personal voices
and present data in the form of fictional diary entries,...  It's a matter
of how important our beliefs are, and how much we can compromise.
Personally, my threshold for prostituting myself is very low

Michael

Wolff-Michael Roth, Ph.D.
Wendy MacDonald Research Fellow
Research Methods & Science Education

Faculty of Education
Simon Fraser University
Burnaby, BC, Canada  V5A 1S6
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