Spiritual Exchange: A Methodology for a Living Inquiry With All Our Relations

International Journal of Qualitative Methods ◽

10.1177/1609406919851636 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 18 ◽

pp. 160940691985163

Author(s):

Victoria Bouvier ◽

Jennifer MacDonald

Keyword(s):

Research Process ◽

Inquiry Process ◽

White Settler ◽

Relational Knowing ◽

Ethical Relationships

Brought to life by an exchange with a crocus, we respond to our challenges with methodologies that privilege cognitive ways of theorizing and sharing together. As a Michif (Metis) woman and a woman of White settler descent, we engage in a layered dialogue across cultural understandings—what we call a spiritual exchange—guided by ethical relationality and the teachings of Spirit Gifting. The spiritual exchange offers a process to make meaning of experiences and to collaborate in ways that help us generate and live out ethical relationships. We question: How can we proceed in ways that might rehumanize the research process and honor the living earth? How might research look and feel if stories of respect, love, reciprocity, and responsibility were at the center? In this article, we offer an inquiry process that honors the act of study from an Indigenous sensibility, the multiplicity of kinetic and relational knowing, and the reanimation of the more-than-human.

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Christ Would Break Your Tongue

Art/Research International A Transdisciplinary Journal ◽

10.18432/ari29336 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 3 (1) ◽

pp. 258-265

Author(s):

Sheila Stewart

Keyword(s):

Research Method ◽

Research Process ◽

Residential Schools ◽

Growing Up ◽

Northern Irish ◽

The Unconscious ◽

Poetic Inquiry ◽

White Settler ◽

Present Experience ◽

Maxine Greene

“Christ Would Break Your Tongue” is part of my on-going exploration of growing up as a United Church minister’s daughter in small-town Ontario. In the title poem, I inquire into the interstices of gender, voice, and authority. In “Dominion” I grapple with how the Christian underpinnings of Western culture place humans above other creatures and lifeforms to the detriment of all living beings. In “Billy Stewart’s Geography” I begin to explore the church’s role in political oppression, colonialism, and residential schools, building on my poetic interests in family dynamics and place (Stewart, 2003; 2012). I use poetic inquiry (Butler-Kisber, Guiney Yallop, Stewart, & Wiebe, 2017; Faulkner, 2009; Galvin & Prendergast, 2016; Prendergast, Leggo, & Sameshima, 2009; Thomas, Cole, & Stewart, 2012) as a research method to reflect on and through language, letting the poems be the plumb-line of the research process. Poetry’s use of the associative, the particular, and the unconscious allow me to explore terrain which may have been previously un-worded. This is needed to write through shame and grief. I believe with Orr (2002) that “the more of our own stories that we can tell, the richer and more complex our selves become. The richer a use we make of our past experience, the more open we are to present experience” (p. 102). This openness is crucial in the search for word and action. Educator Maxine Greene (1977) calls us to be open or “awake.” How can poets be awake to this complex social/political moment and use their craft to speak? Poetry works with stories and lyric which are once personal, ideological and often shaped by religion. As a white settler Canadian, I strive to uncover the complicity of my religious and Northern Irish background in hierarchical and oppressive relations. My hope is to provoke.

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Three principles of pragmatism for research on organizational processes

Methodological Innovations ◽

10.1177/2059799120937242 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 13 (2) ◽

pp. 205979912093724

Author(s):

Leanne M Kelly ◽

Maya Cordeiro

Keyword(s):

Research Process ◽

Project Design ◽

Pragmatic Approach ◽

Organizational Processes ◽

Actionable Knowledge ◽

Government Organizations ◽

Inquiry Process ◽

Experiential Process ◽

Methodological Principles ◽

Epistemological Framework

This article explicates pragmatism as a relevant and useful paradigm for qualitative research on organizational processes. The article focuses on three core methodological principles that underlie a pragmatic approach to inquiry: (1) an emphasis on actionable knowledge, (2) recognition of the interconnectedness between experience, knowing and acting and (3) inquiry as an experiential process. The authors’ doctoral projects on non-government organizations are used as examples to examine how the application of these principles strengthen each stage of the research process from project design and data collection to data analysis, conclusions and dissemination. This investigation suggests that pragmatism, which provides a guiding epistemological framework anchored in the inquiry process and research practicality, is a worthy paradigm for researching organizational processes. Pragmatism’s focus on the production of actionable knowledge is of particular benefit to research with non-government organizations, ensuring that research is contextually relevant as well as informed by theory.

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Theorizing ethical questioning for applied theatre practice

Applied Theatre Research ◽

10.1386/atr_00051_1 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 9 (2) ◽

pp. 99-116 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Taiwo Afolabi

Keyword(s):

Critical Pedagogy ◽

Research Process ◽

The Other ◽

Doctoral Research ◽

Inquiry Process ◽

Applied Theatre ◽

Collective Processes ◽

Ethical Choices ◽

Political Act

This article examines ethical questioning as an inquiry process germane to making ethical choices in applied theatre research. Focusing on reflexivity through reflection before, in and on action, I consider ethical questioning as a framework to amplify resistance, promote participation and strengthen decolonization in the research process. I situate ethical questioning within critical pedagogy for applied theatre practice and construct an ethical questioning framework that rests on both individualism and collective processes. I conclude by briefly examining some processes in my doctoral research and reflecting on the implications of ethical questioning on applied theatre and the call to turn from a morality debate about ethics to a political act rooted in the awareness of oneself in relation to the other.

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Projecting a European Diploma in Psychology

European Psychologist ◽

10.1027//1016-9040.7.3.221 ◽

2002 ◽

Vol 7 (3) ◽

pp. 221-224 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Bernhard Wilpert

Keyword(s):

Research Process ◽

Project Team ◽

Future Research ◽

Research Results ◽

External Constraints ◽

Internal Procedures ◽

The Eu

The paper presents an inside evaluation of the EuroPsyT project, funded by the EU Leonardo Program in 1999-2001. While standard research usually neglects to reflect on the internal and external constraints and opportunities under which research results are achieved, the paper stresses exactly those aspects: starting from a brief description of the overall objectives of the 11 countries project, the paper proceeds to describe the macro-context and the internal strengths and weaknesses of the project team, the internal procedures of cooperation,. and obstacles encountered during the research process. It winds up in noting some of the project's achievements and with a look towards future research.

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