Ideals and Norms in Scholarship – initial thoughts

This past week I was asked to attend an offsite meeting of a local research group where they were discussing ethics.  They asked me to present a topic around ethics within science and scholarship. This gave me an opportunity to try to condense some of my recent thoughts. Roughly, I’ve been playing around with the idea that there is a growing conflict between what those outside of scholarship view the practice of scholarship as (“an ideal”) and how the actually messy practice of it works (“the norms”).  In the slides, below I try to make a start of an argument that we should be clear about the norms that we have. Articulate them and embrace them. I try to boil this down in to two:

1. be transparent,
2. embrace the iterative nature of scholarship

I’d love to hear your thoughts on this line of thinking.

Ideals and Norms in Scholarship from Paul Groth