Policy

Ethnomathematics Journal follows the COPE Core Practice on ethical oversight. Authors are responsible for conducting and reporting their research in line with the ethical standards of their institution, their country, and their discipline. Ethnomathematics research often works with communities, teachers, students, and cultural knowledge holders, so research involving people requires informed consent and, where applicable, ethical approval.

Research with people

• Where ethical approval is required, state in the Method section the name of the ethics committee or institutional review body and the approval number.
• If approval was not required, say why.
• State how informed consent was obtained, including consent from parents or guardians for children.
• Protect the privacy and confidentiality of participants. Do not publish names, images, recordings, or details that could identify a person without that person’s consent for publication.

Communities and cultural knowledge

• Describe how permission was obtained from the community, its leaders, or the holders of the cultural knowledge, practice, or artefact that the study documents.
• Acknowledge the community and the source of the knowledge, and describe how the study respects it.
• Take particular care with sacred, restricted, or sensitive cultural material.

Vulnerable groups

Research with children, people who cannot give consent freely, marginalised communities, and other vulnerable groups needs particular care about consent, pressure, risk, and privacy.

Checks by the editors

The editors may ask for the approval details or the consent information, and may ask the institution or seek expert advice if they doubt that the research was ethical. A published article can be corrected, given an expression of concern, or retracted if serious ethical problems are found. See Publication Ethics.

Questions

Write to ethnomath@uny.ac.id.