“…Individuals whose ethnicity, race, sex, gender, sexual orientation, and military experience are different from mine may have an easier or a more challenging time adjusting to the academy after the post 9/11 wars. But hopefully this piece can be a good starting point for those conversations (see Hunniecutt, 2020;Lester et al, 2013;van Gilder, 2019).…”
The journey to Iraq and beyond is not as straightforward as one might think. The author of this piece was an older recruit when he joined the military, as a surprising number of medics in his unit were. Moral Foundations Theory guides this article, as it is the learned beliefs the author has from a child that influenced many of the decisions he made, which are discussed herein. The goals of this article are to first supply a background that helps situate the author's lived experiences, second to share some of those lived experiences to provide greater context, and third to illustrate how the author's military service shaped his experiences in the academy as an undergraduate student, graduate student, and faculty member. The author hopes this article helps those unfamiliar with the military understand what their students and colleagues, especially those who have served since September 11, 2001, experience and gain a new perspective. The author also hopes this article helps other military veterans who may have had similar experiences realize that they are not alone.
“…Individuals whose ethnicity, race, sex, gender, sexual orientation, and military experience are different from mine may have an easier or a more challenging time adjusting to the academy after the post 9/11 wars. But hopefully this piece can be a good starting point for those conversations (see Hunniecutt, 2020;Lester et al, 2013;van Gilder, 2019).…”
The journey to Iraq and beyond is not as straightforward as one might think. The author of this piece was an older recruit when he joined the military, as a surprising number of medics in his unit were. Moral Foundations Theory guides this article, as it is the learned beliefs the author has from a child that influenced many of the decisions he made, which are discussed herein. The goals of this article are to first supply a background that helps situate the author's lived experiences, second to share some of those lived experiences to provide greater context, and third to illustrate how the author's military service shaped his experiences in the academy as an undergraduate student, graduate student, and faculty member. The author hopes this article helps those unfamiliar with the military understand what their students and colleagues, especially those who have served since September 11, 2001, experience and gain a new perspective. The author also hopes this article helps other military veterans who may have had similar experiences realize that they are not alone.
This forum considers recent trends in organizational communication ethnography, a distinctive tradition of qualitative research. Historically, ethnography has been valued for its unique ability to generate nuanced findings that vividly explain how communication is meaningful and consequential for organizational actors. Customarily, ethnographers pursue this ideal through distinctive practices. These include embedding for extended periods in routine organizational settings; generating detailed, descriptive data from their observation of, interaction with, and interviewing of organizational members; preserving those actors' indigenous meanings for their artifacts and
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