Re/searching for “impact”
Purpose - As an exploration of how “impact” might be reconsidered, the purpose of this paper is to suggest that current contemporary understandings of “impact” fail practice and research by obscuring the space for reflexive criticality that is crucial for an individual or organisation to flourish. T...
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| description | Purpose - As an exploration of how “impact” might be reconsidered, the purpose of this paper is to suggest that current contemporary understandings of “impact” fail practice and research by obscuring the space for reflexive criticality that is crucial for an individual or organisation to flourish. That it thus leads to an already predefined enculturated understanding of “impact”. Design/methodology/approach - Offering some interrogation and folkloristic analogy of the meaning of “impact”, three brief expositions of differing arts-based práxes concerned mainly with reflection and connection, are then discussed through the lens of Ricœur’s et al. (1978) conflation of the hermeneutical process with phenomenology. Findings - It is suggested that the implications of restoring, refreshing, or representing “impact” give license to a personal/professional revitalisation, and that reformulating an understanding of “impact” through re/search might offer a potential pedagogic tool, and alternative organising feature. Originality/value - Through the introduction of inter-disciplinary thinking and práxes, the paper offers novel autoethnographic arts-based methods for personal, professional and organisational development and growth. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-2a992122c1654eee94abf91ecf00a6eb2022-12-22T04:00:51ZengEmerald PublishingJournal of Work-Applied Management2205-20622205-149X2017-12-019214715810.1108/JWAM-07-2017-0022602045Re/searching for “impact”Simon Ellis Poole0Faculty of Education and Children’s Services, University of Chester, Chester, UKPurpose - As an exploration of how “impact” might be reconsidered, the purpose of this paper is to suggest that current contemporary understandings of “impact” fail practice and research by obscuring the space for reflexive criticality that is crucial for an individual or organisation to flourish. That it thus leads to an already predefined enculturated understanding of “impact”. Design/methodology/approach - Offering some interrogation and folkloristic analogy of the meaning of “impact”, three brief expositions of differing arts-based práxes concerned mainly with reflection and connection, are then discussed through the lens of Ricœur’s et al. (1978) conflation of the hermeneutical process with phenomenology. Findings - It is suggested that the implications of restoring, refreshing, or representing “impact” give license to a personal/professional revitalisation, and that reformulating an understanding of “impact” through re/search might offer a potential pedagogic tool, and alternative organising feature. Originality/value - Through the introduction of inter-disciplinary thinking and práxes, the paper offers novel autoethnographic arts-based methods for personal, professional and organisational development and growth.https://www.emeraldinsight.com/doi/pdfplus/10.1108/JWAM-07-2017-0022ImpactAutoethnographyArts-basedFolklorePerambulographyPráxes |
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| topic | Impact Autoethnography Arts-based Folklore Perambulography Práxes |
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