Regulation of research in education: The tensions between ethical autonomy and normative heteronomy

Abstract

This article aims at analyzing the issue of conduct regulation in academic research, with more than two years of the Resolution of the National Health Council (CNS) n. 510/2016. Three perspectives (formative, philosophical and normative) are investigated to verify the possibilities of ethical autonomy in research as opposed to normative heteronomy, especially in the educational field, as part of the Human, Social and Applied Social Sciences (CHSSA). The main theoretical basis of this analysis is the work of Theodor W. Adorno and it is carried out especially from one of the motivating questions of the Critical Theory of Society: The possibility of emancipation (autonomy) of the individual in the administered society.