Collaborative Transformations

Napan, Ksenija; Green, Jennifer K.; Thomas, Judy; Stent, Warwick; Jülich, Shirley; Lee, Debora; Patterson, Lynnemaree

doi:10.1177/1541344617736636

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“…Viv was not the interviewer, just as Bob was not the interviewee. Instead, this has been (and still is) a project of co-inquiry (see Heron and Reason, 2001;Napan et al, 2018), in which we are both investigators and learners at the same time.…”

Section: What Is This Relationship?mentioning

confidence: 99%

Forming a new and unexpected relationship through digital technologies: Lessons for child and family social work

Cree,

MacKenzie

2023

Adoption & Fostering

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This article is not a research paper in the conventional sense. Instead, it is a reflexive account of the building of a relationship which would not have happened without the existence of digital technologies and might not have happened but for the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic. It was through reading a digitised resource (an online PhD thesis) in the first UK ‘lockdown’ that Bob, now a semi-retired academic in the field of adult and organisational learning, began to reappraise his upbringing in a children’s home in Scotland. Meanwhile, it was in getting to know Bob (through emails and Zoom meetings) and by accessing Bob’s retrospectively digitised case record that Viv, the author of the PhD thesis and now a semi-retired social work academic, was stimulated to revisit her early research from a fresh perspective. We argue that our real-life example, serendipitous and unique as it undoubtedly is, demonstrates the democratising potential of the digital transformation that is currently being played out in child and family social work. Furthermore, it seems likely that digital technologies will continue to bring new and unexpected opportunities for forming such relationships in the future.

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Section: What Is This Relationship?mentioning

confidence: 99%

Forming a new and unexpected relationship through digital technologies: Lessons for child and family social work

Cree,

MacKenzie

2023

Adoption & Fostering

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“…All these are of equal significance in CI, representing a radically extended epistemic approach, infrequently honoured in academia. As Napan et al., (2018) suggests CI is an epistemic orientation that confronts the positivist academy. Our CI represents an epistemological and ontological counterpoint to childbirth scholarship and research that does not acknowledge the concept and experiential reality of spirituality as an aspect (important, real, meaningful) of childbirth.…”

Section: Experiences and Reflectionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Using a virtual platform for an asynchronous co-operative inquiry

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A participatory action research (PAR) study using co-operative inquiry methods was employed to examine the topic ‘spirituality and childbirth’. Co-operative inquiry (CI) reclaims the right of co-researchers to create knowledge from their own lived experience, an approach that works ‘with’ rather than ‘on’ people, valuing individual contributions. Traditionally, CI has been organised synchronously in the same physical location. However, with current events and need for greater global collaboration for divergent/convergent perspectives, an ‘asynchronous’ CI is important to consider. To date, the authors are not aware of any published/unpublished asynchronous co-operative inquiry research projects. This article describes how our inquiry group worked across global regions and time zones meeting online, via emails and discussion boards, and gathered data in an online repository. The outcomes of this inquiry are published elsewhere, here we discuss the novel methods used to support emergence of a modified CI. We offer insight into how our cycles of reflection and action matured and were possible and enhanced through virtual inquiry methods. While technology posed limitations, working asynchronously across time and space enabled rich and complex conversations. An asynchronous modified CI method allows a depth of inquiry to be achieved whilst retaining the purpose of CI.

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“…Most often CI is done by professionals to address the common concerns faced by them. Some examples of CI in practice include Treleaven (1994), Douglas (2002), Bower-Phipps et al (2016, Napan et al (2018). Bower-Phipps et al (2016) describe CI done by teachers/educators who self identified as 'the other.'…”

Section: Research As a Transformative Experiencementioning

confidence: 99%

“…They wanted to understand their experiences of 'otherness' and how it resulted in them being advocates of diversity apart from integrating diversity issues and sensitivity in teaching. Napan et al (2018) describe CI done by a multidisciplinary group of researchers from tertiary education institutions to evaluate the effectiveness of CI as a research method for cross-disciplinary innovations. Both research describe co-researchers' personal and professional transformations as the outcome.…”

Section: Research As a Transformative Experiencementioning

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Feminist cooperative inquiry: Grassroots women define and deepen empowerment through dialogue

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This paper is an account of feminist research influenced by Cooperative Inquiry (CI) described as Feminist Cooperative Inquiry. A team of grassroots women leaders-turned-co-researchers, from different marginalised social locations (on gender, caste, class, education, livelihood axes) in India, developed this methodology to collectively analyse their own empowering journeys to make meanings of empowerment. The diversity of co-researchers in this research led to making additions or deviations in the CI protocol. By bringing in nonliterate or low-literate women from marginalised groups as coresearchers, the research added political value by extending centre of collective knowledge building towards marginalised groups. The paper also discusses how the research processes further empowered the coresearchers for their own interpretations, abstractions and their selfdefined viewpoint in the domain of empowerment. Calling empowerment as primarily an ‘internal reflective process’ co-researchers defied oversimplified, quantifiable proxy indicators as any measure of empowerment.

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Collaborative Transformations

Cited by 10 publications

References 22 publications

Forming a new and unexpected relationship through digital technologies: Lessons for child and family social work

Forming a new and unexpected relationship through digital technologies: Lessons for child and family social work

Using a virtual platform for an asynchronous co-operative inquiry

Feminist cooperative inquiry: Grassroots women define and deepen empowerment through dialogue

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