The Topography of Moral Ecology

Brinkmann, Svend

doi:10.1177/0959354304040198

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“…As clinicians they also feel a pull towards judging the contribution of a participant's account to their putative psychological well-being. This may lead clinician-researchers to fail to do justice to the "lived moral life" (Brinkmann 2004) of their participants, to privilege their own strong evaluations to the point of indifference to the way different ethical stances may be operating in the participants' narratives. They may show too much judgement and not enough curiosity.…”

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confidence: 98%

Researching the Moral Dimension of First-Person Narratives

Wren

2011

Qualitative Research in Psychology

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The Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust, London, UKResearch with reflexive, narrative accounts has grown in popularity within psychology, not least because it legitimates the deployment of clinical skills. These skills are often directed toward evaluating the quality and substance of narratives according to criteria that are intrinsic to models of psychological well-being and clearly relate to professionally held moral goods. I describe a tension for the clinician-researcher between, on the one hand, evaluating a narrative according to widely accepted norms of "good" storying and, on the other, allowing the participants' own ethical logic to be privileged. Using narrative extracts from a project on parents of transgendered teenagers, I illustrate these two broad approaches to reading reflective narrative accounts. I argue that we require more studies taking a direct interest in the ordinary, unremarkable work of ethical accounting within a local moral order. Research that focuses on the moral particularity of each participant could help us both in understanding the way that ethical reasoning guides action-grasping how participants' uncertainties are expressed in the vocabulary of moral choice-and in deepening our scrutiny of the meaningfulness and relevance of our preferred clinical judgements and the ethical biases they reveal.

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Section: Resultsmentioning

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Researching the Moral Dimension of First-Person Narratives

Wren

2011

Qualitative Research in Psychology

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“…With regard to student question-asking in formal educational settings, hermeneutics implies a methodological commitment to studying learners' lived experiences as they navigate the relational complexities of actual practice in a variety of academic contexts. As we will clarify below, however, a study of question-asking in lived spaces of practical involvement also implies exploration of the value-laden, morally-constituted nature of academic practice itself (Brinkmann, 2004(Brinkmann, , 2011Stigliano, 1990;Taylor, 1989;Yanchar & Slife, 2017). As Brinkmann (2004) argued, "We cannot describe the human world adequately without at the same time describing values, goods, and reasons for action" (p. 57).…”

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Moral Complexities of Student Question-Asking in Classroom Practice

Yanchar

Gong

2020

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Prior research on student question-asking has primarily been conducted from a cognitive, epistemological standpoint. In contrast, we present a hermeneutic-phenomenological investigation that emphasizes the moral-practical context in which question-asking functions as a situated way of being in the midst of practice. More particularly, we present a hermeneutic study of student question-asking in a graduate seminar on design theory (i.e., a seminar focused on theory and philosophy of design, emphasizing the work of design scholars such as Simon, Cross, Krippendorff, and Lawson). The study offers a unique moral-practical perspective on this commonly studied phenomenon. Our analysis yielded four themes regarding the moral-practical intricacies of question-asking in this setting, with a particular focus on time-related constraints on participation, various types of background understanding, and value-laden expectations that participants encountered in this complex ecology of practice.

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“…Aristotle’s concept of phronesis , a practical wisdom that supplies a person with insight into how an entity comes to perform its function well [16], was employed by Cook and Leathard [14] to premise their exposition on clinical leadership, whereby they argued that phronesis ought to be the foundation of this change. This practical knowledge also lends support in articulating how a steward may till the environment, or in this case, preserve and promote what is intrinsically valuable in a nursing environment: the practice of bearing witness.…”

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Nurse Leaders as Stewards: The Beginning of Change

Murphy¹

2009

Open Nurs J

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In understanding fully persons’ moral predicaments, a core component of forming perceptual judgments, nurses may need to shift the epistemology of their practice from instrumental reasoning, or means-ends thinking, integrating a virtue-based practical reasoning. A bearing witness that achieves understanding of clients’ moral qualities is attained through the articulation of nurses’ self-identities within matrices, such as MacIntyre’s theory of virtue ethics and standards and codes of ethics. Moreover, nurse leaders who exercise stewardship could apply the concept of communities of inquiry to structure learning conditions by which nurses may engage in experiential learning. This leadership enhanced by the nurse steward’s phronetic knowledge, or practical wisdom, which guides understanding of how the clockwork of practical reasoning may evolve within such communities, is critical to nurses’ shift in reasoning. Nonetheless, nurse leaders need empirical evidence to comprehend how stewards’ accumulated moral insights may shape their character qualities, hence selection of values upon which to act in facilitating nurses’ self-expression.

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The Topography of Moral Ecology

Cited by 37 publications

References 23 publications

Researching the Moral Dimension of First-Person Narratives

Researching the Moral Dimension of First-Person Narratives

Moral Complexities of Student Question-Asking in Classroom Practice

Nurse Leaders as Stewards: The Beginning of Change

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