Groupthink
Blackburn
These types of reporting strategies reinforce the in-group belief that manipulating research
data is acceptable (and ethical) because Deaf Education Research is distinct and researchers in this
profession should be permitted to be conduct their work using special criteria. This textbook
cements the dichotomy that Deaf Education Research is Educational Research, yet, at the same
time, posits that special circumstances and manipulations are permitted because deaf students are
part of an exceptional population. We cannot accept both standard and variable means of reporting
information.
References
Janis, I. L. (1971). Groupthink. Psychology Today (5), 43-46, 74-76.
SASLJ, Vol. 2, No.1 – Spring/Summer 2018
56