Toward an Inquiry of Discomfort

Wolgemuth, Jennifer R.; Donohue, Richard H.

doi:10.1177/1077800406288629

Cited by 57 publications

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“…The gesture says that 'others are seen as potentially enriching friends' (Volf 2002:16). It is within the context of what Wolgemuth andDonohue (2006:1033) call an ethic of friendship that one's own vulnerabilities and weaknesses create space for a deeper and more articulated understanding of care. Opened arms represent the comfort that creates space for ambiguity and transformation (Wolgemuth & Donohue 2006:1033.…”

Section: Opening Armsmentioning

confidence: 99%

From dependence to interdependence: Towards a practical theology of disability

Leshota

2015

HTS Teologiese Studies / Theological Studies

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Disability has remained on the fringes of research in Africa in general and Southern Africa in particular, especially in the field of theology. Its glaring absence constitutes an indictment against both church and society, revealing in the process both the church’s and society’s penchant for a dependence paradigm which has been the paradigm with respect to issues of disabilities and people with disabilities. Using the participatory method with its proclivity for bringing to the fore the voice of the ‘other’ and the marginalised, both the dependence and independence paradigms within the context of disability are put under scrutiny. In the process and through the voice of people with disabilities, the practical theological paradigm of interdependence emerges as the most appropriate and friendliest one, as it resonates with both the New Testament notion of koinonia through love and the African notion of botho through interconnection. The practical theology of holding each other in arms resonates with the theology of embrace that has been popularised by Volf within the context of much hatred and alienation. All these different dimensions of the theology of interdependence become the bedrock for inclusive and respectful treatment of each other irrespective of race, gender,

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Section: Opening Armsmentioning

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From dependence to interdependence: Towards a practical theology of disability

Leshota

2015

HTS Teologiese Studies / Theological Studies

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“…In this way, the researcher/ participants' voices were valued and participants were able to gain clarity in terms of their lived experiences. Further, Wolgemuth andDonohue (2006, p. 1027) found that narrative can 'deeply change participants' and researchers' ways of viewing themselves'. Their notion rests at the heart of this study as the use of narrative as a practical form of reflection on practice is investigated.…”

Section: Methodology and Proceduresmentioning

confidence: 96%

The impact of a coaching/sporting culture on one coach's identity: how narrative became a useful tool in reconstructing coaching ideologies

Zehntner

McMahon

2014

Sports Coaching Review

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In this research, the use of narrative accounts is investigated as the catalyst for the evolution of one coach's identity. Unable to sustain a coaching identity that was deemed to be appropriate by my coaching mentors, I (Author 1) disengaged from the swimming culture. This was due in part to the expression of power within the mentormentee relationship embedded in the coach development pathway, as well as within the wider sporting culture. By utilizing a narrative approach; writing and deconstructing my own narratives in relation to coach identity development within the mentor -mentee relationship, I developed an alternative approach. I established a sustainable coaching identity that demonstrated evidence-based judgement and reflective consideration of actions rather than the obtuse reproduction of mentor coach practice. This research suggests that the use of narrative as an integral element in coach education can be powerful in terms of deconstructing cultural ideologies and in the construction of a sustainable coaching identity. The combination of these two components is powerful in terms of enabling a coaching identity to evolve. It is therefore suggested that the development of a sustainable mentor-mentee relationship is inextricably linked with the expression of narrative and the critical reflection on the same.

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“…50 Wolgemuth and Donohue have similarly suggested that where empathy is the critical stance of the researcher then 'friendship is the overriding structure for that stance': researchers must concern themselves with the whole of participants' lives, privileging participants' feelings, experiences, and the needs of data and information gathering. 51 In selecting the term 'privilege' over 'balance', Wolgemuth and Donohue suggest that this involves more than the process of 'weighting' benefits against risk -as researchers are so often asked to do within ethics applications. It goes beyond the simple 'prevention of harm.'…”

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Towards an Ethic of Reciprocity: The Messy Business of Co-creating Research with Voices from the Archive

McLaughlan

2018

CSR

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Do contemporary practices of attribution go far enough in acknowledging the contribution that others make to our work, particularly when they speak from the archive? The autobiographical fiction Faces in the Water (1961) from acclaimed author Janet Frame (1924-2004) draws on her experiences of residing in various New Zealand mental hospitals between 1945 and 1953. It is a rare and comprehensive account of the patient experience of these institutions that provided a critical lens for my doctoral research. Perhaps more importantly, through this text Frame taught me how difficult histories should be written, about the ambiguities we must accept and the value adjustments to be made in order to make sense of confounding inhumanity. Nowhere within my dissertation is the depth of this contribution acknowledged; a position developed out of respect for her family’s active opposition to the ‘patronising’ and ‘pathologising discourse’ that continues to haunt contemporary receptions of Frame’s work. Within this paper I employ autoethnography to make explicit the process of working through a question that haunted me well beyond the completion of my doctoral research: whether contemporary practices of citation and acknowledgement are sufficient to value research contributions from beyond the grave. I will examine whether Frame’s contribution is commensurate with contemporary qualifications for co-authorship and the burdens of academic practice that act to suppress these conversations.

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Toward an Inquiry of Discomfort

Cited by 57 publications

References 8 publications

From dependence to interdependence: Towards a practical theology of disability

From dependence to interdependence: Towards a practical theology of disability

The impact of a coaching/sporting culture on one coach's identity: how narrative became a useful tool in reconstructing coaching ideologies

Towards an Ethic of Reciprocity: The Messy Business of Co-creating Research with Voices from the Archive

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