Brief review on ethics regulation in research: contributions to think of research in education in Brazil

This article provides a review on ethics in research geared to researchers and Brazilian groups of research in education. We raised sources in Portuguese available on the web, crossing terms as “ethics in research involving human beings”, “ethics committees” , “ethics regulation in research”, “ethics in social research”, “ethics in educational research”. Seeking a panorama that valued diversity of topics and perspectives, we organized the sources into five topics: Integrity; Principles; Resolutions and Committees, with a subtopic on International Context; Ethics in social research; Populations and vulnerable subjects. Research in education is critical to broaden the debate about ethics regulation in research. In all categories, important educational and pedagogical aspects appear for promotion of integrity and ethics in the scientific community, for the defense of ethical pluralism and the recognition of symmetry between the areas of knowledge, considering specificities