scholarly journals Bourdieu and Jung: A Thought Partnership to Explore Personal, Social, and Collective Unconscious Influences on Professional Practices

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rosa Bologna ◽  
Franziska Trede ◽  
Narelle Patton
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Professional Practice ◽  
Carl Jung ◽  
Professional Practices ◽  
Collective Unconscious ◽  
Doctoral Study ◽  
Critical Reflexivity ◽  
Hermeneutic Approach ◽  
Play Therapists ◽  
Thinking Tools

This paper introduces a thought partnership between Pierre Bourdieu and Carl Jung used to explore clinical play therapists’ understanding and critical reflexivity of unconscious influences on their relational practices with parents. The partnership is situated within a broader methodological partnership between Paul Ricoeur and Jung discussed by the authors in another paper in this issue. The purpose of the Bourdieu and Jung partnership is to design a comprehensive theoretical tool kit that enables the exploration of the interrelated nature of personal, social, and collective unconscious influences on professional practices. The paper discusses seven Bourdieusian and ten Jungian thinking tools and how they were brought together within a critical imaginal hermeneutic approach drawn from the first author’s doctoral study. The application of the conceptual partnership to the study’s text sets is then discussed to provide an in-depth structural analysis of the study’s phenomenon. The results highlight how the application of the thinking tools provide a critical and systemic awareness of how personal, social, and collective unconscious influences shape professional practices. Implications for professional practice are discussed as well as the role the Bourdieusian and Jungian thinking tools can play in enhancing the fundamental aims of qualitative research, particularly critical inquiry.

scholarly journals A Critical Imaginal Hermeneutics Approach to Explore Unconscious Influences on Professional Practices: A Ricoeur and Jung Partnership

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rosa Bologna ◽  
Franziska Trede ◽  
Narelle Patton
Keyword(s):  
Professional Practice ◽  
Meaning Making ◽  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Social Constructivist ◽  
Professional Relationships ◽  
Relational Practices ◽  
Critical Reflexivity ◽  
The Social ◽  
Play Therapists

Professional relationships are at the heart of professional practice. Qualitative studies exploring professional practice relationships are typically positioned in either the social constructivist (interpretive) paradigm where the aim is to explore actors’ subjective understandings of their relationships and relational practices, or in the critical paradigm where the aim is to reveal objective unconscious structures and hidden power plays influencing actors’ practices. This paper introduces critical imaginal hermeneutics as a systemic philosophical and methodological approach situated on the juncture of the social constructivist and critical paradigms where the dual aim is to explore both actors’ subjective understanding and meaning-making processes associated with their relational practices as well as explore objective unconscious structures and power relations influencing their relational practices. At the core of this approach is a Critical Imaginal Hermeneutic Spiral – a methodological guide for text construction and interpretation processes developed by partnering Paul Ricoeur’s critical hermeneutics and Carl Jung’s imaginal arts-based approach. The spiral was developed, employed, and coined as part of the first author’s doctoral thesis exploring clinical play therapists’ relational practices with parents. It incorporates the Bourdieu and Jung thought partnership explored by the authors in another paper in this volume. The approach provides a systemic guide for developing practitioners’ critical reflexivity regarding personal, social, and collective unconscious influences on their relational practices, and in turn minimising the unconscious influences that undermine the quality of professional practice relationships.

scholarly journals Using Secondary Analysis to Maintain a Critically Reflexive Approach to Qualitative Research

2014 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
pp. 53-64 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah Wilson
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Research Work ◽  
Secondary Analysis ◽  
Research History ◽  
Critical Reflexivity ◽  
Over Time

Maintaining a ‘critical reflexivity’ ( Heaphy 2008 ) or ‘investigative epistemology’ ( Mason 2007 ) in relation to the sedimented assumptions built up over the course of one's own research history and embedded in common research boundaries, is difficult. The type of secondary analysis discussed in this paper is not an easy or quick ‘fix’ to the important issue of how such assumptions can embed themselves over time in methods chosen and questions asked. Even though archived studies are often accompanied by relatively detailed metadata, finding relevant data and getting a grasp on a sample, is time-consuming. However, it is argued that close examination of rawer data than those presented in research reports from carefully chosen studies combining similar foci and epistemological approaches but with differently situated samples, can help. Here, this process highlighted assumptions underlying the habitual disciplinary locations and constructions of so-called ‘vulnerable’ as opposed to ‘ordinary’ samples, leading the author to scrutinise aspects of her previous research work in this light and providing important insights for the development of further projects.

scholarly journals Metodología para la dirección de las prácticas preprofesionales en la familia de especialidades Mecánicas en la Educación Técnica Profesional

2016 ◽  
pp. 143
Author(s):  
Fredys García González ◽  
Vivian Arencibia Fernández
Keyword(s):  
Vocational Education ◽  
Professional Practice ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
Technical Training ◽  
Professional Practices ◽  
Role Of Teachers ◽  
Technical And Vocational Education ◽  
Training Of Personnel

RESUMENLas prácticas preprofesionales en las especialidades de Mecánica en la Educación Técnica y Profesional han presentado limitaciones en la calidad de formación del egresado, cuestión motivada fundamentalmente por las deficiencias en la preparación para la dirección del sistema de influencias. De este modo, en el presente artículo se presenta una metodología para la dirección de las prácticas, la cual ha sido diseñada teniendo en cuenta las funciones de los profesores y tutores. La introducción de esta ha facilitado la preparación técnica y metodológica del personal implicado.Palabras clave: Práctica preprofesionales, técnico en formación, tutor.Methodology for conducting pre-professional practices in the Mechanics specialty in Professional Technical EducationABSTRACTPre-professional practices in the mechanics field at the technical and vocational education had limitations in the quality of training for graduates, due mainly to deficiencies in preparing the management of the influence system. This article presents a methodology for management practices, which was designed taking into account the role of teachers and tutors. Its introduction has facilitated the technical and methodological training of personnel involved.Key words: Pre-professional practice, technical training, tutor.

In the Path of Creating a Relational “How” in Research

2022 ◽  
pp. 120-141
Author(s):  
Yeraldine Aldana
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
English Language ◽  
Language Teaching ◽  
Applied Linguistics ◽  
Short Description ◽  
English Language Teaching ◽  
Research Approach ◽  
Practical Realization ◽  
Doctoral Study

Some researchers consider the qualitative research approach is a finished enterprise; however, this is not the case. This chapter discusses some methodological decisions through a proposal that plurisignifies qualitative research as an otherwise intuitive approach. This derives from a doctoral study about peace construction (PC) in applied linguistics (AL) to English language teaching (ELT). Firstly, a problematization around qualitative research develops to question taken-for-granted methodological beliefs, concepts, and practices, which represent the instrumentalization of research. Secondly, a proposal to re-humanize these problematized aspects is presented through a discussion of its relationalities and a short description of a practical realization of it. Conclusions wrap up the main contributions of this chapter and comment on their possible implications.

Putting Industry Into WIL Teaching Praxis

2021 ◽  
pp. 38-63
Author(s):  
Jeff Naqvi
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Professional Practice ◽  
Opportunity To Learn ◽  
Evidence Base ◽  
Career Management ◽  
Individual Values ◽  
Assessment Design ◽  
Internal Stakeholders

A 2008 review identified the need for Australia to get more citizens into higher education. With this increase in participation, the student cohort began to diversify. Qualitative research showed that final-year students experienced anxiety and a lack of confidence towards their impending transition into professional practice. The WIL course in this case study encouraged students to view career management proactively, as more than generating professional sustenance, but to connect to individual values and working preferences. Students reported that the WIL course helped them gain confidence in their existing skillsets to approach the market. There is an evidence base that as graduates the ‘lifelong' career management benefits of the course continue to be valued. Considerations for WIL praxis include earlier adoption of work-based learning, leverage internal stakeholders to understand the student cohort, and educating academics on assessment design to enhance students' opportunity to learn.

The Alchemical Body of Carl Jung

2021 ◽  
pp. 164-191
Author(s):  
Simon Cox
Keyword(s):  
Substance P ◽  
Carl Jung ◽  
Active Imagination ◽  
Kundalini Yoga ◽  
Subtle Body ◽  
Dream Analysis ◽  
Critical Reflexivity ◽  
Body Concept ◽  
Quantum Revolution ◽  
Eastern Traditions

This chapter traces the subtle body concept through the work of Carl Jung, who is introduced to the idea by G. R. S. Mead’s theosophical books. After tracing Jung’s early engagement with the Orient, the chapter moves to an analysis of the subtle body concept in his work, specifically in his engagements with Eastern traditions: Daoism, Kundalini Yoga, and Tibetan Bardo Yoga. After examining Jung’s use of the subtle body concept in his translation-commentaries on Eastern texts, the chapter turns to how Jung incorporates the concept into his own psychology of individuation based on the techniques of active imagination and dream analysis. The chapter turns to Jung’s seminars on Nietzsche, where he presents the subtle body concept with a unique dose of critical reflexivity and Kantian rigor. It ends with Jung’s late-life speculation about a future where, following the quantum revolution and spitting of the atom, humans evolve into subtle body–dwelling creatures who occupy a world of psychical substance.

scholarly journals Crossing Thresholds with a Child with a Disability

2015 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 83-98 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elisabeth De Schauwer ◽  
Bronwyn Davies
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Professional Practice ◽  
Disabled Children ◽  
Critical Qualitative Research ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Child With A Disability

This essay takes up the concept of “thresholds” as it was developed in the Spring 2014 issue of Departures in Critical Qualitative Research. It opens up a fertile seam of thought about encounters with people labeled as “disabled” and with one's own child in particular. The article troubles the processes of normalization, and opens up the space of difference by excavating its unspeakability. The stories of two mothers and their disabled children are told using the concept of thresholds to examine their encounters with (the difference of) their children. The essay concludes with implications for professional practice.

How we view our theoretical competency: Early childhood pre-service teachers' self-evaluation of a professional placement experience

2012 ◽  
Vol 37 (2) ◽  
pp. 141-147 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joseph Agbenyega
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Early Childhood ◽  
Professional Practice ◽  
Qualitative Data ◽  
Mentor Teachers ◽  
Theoretical Knowledge ◽  
Framework Analysis ◽  
Self Evaluation ◽  
Theoretical Approaches

RECENT EFFORTS TO RENOVATE the teaching of young children have led to a greater emphasis on teachers' theoretical understandings of children and teaching, and how they translate their understandings into practice. This qualitative research analysed and discussed how early childhood pre-service teachers in one Australian university perceived their theoretical competence and how they used this in their pedagogical decision making and adaptations in their professional placement. The paper investigated how the pre-service teachers justified and enacted decisions about which pedagogical and theoretical approaches to use in their classrooms, and how they reconciled potential conflicts and contradictions between their own ideas, pedagogical and theoretical knowledge, and those of their mentor teachers. A framework analysis of rich qualitative data obtained through focus groups in class illuminated the pre-service teachers' theoretical competency, theoretical confidence, theoretical preparation and theoretical reflexivity. The paper concludes with recommendations for improving early childhood pre-service teachers' professional practice.

Reporting Australian Television News: Professional Practice in the Analogue-to-Digital Transition

2006 ◽  
Vol 121 (1) ◽  
pp. 149-158 ◽  
Author(s):  
Barbara Alysen
Keyword(s):  
Professional Practice ◽  
Television News ◽  
Professional Practices ◽  
News Reporting ◽  
Digital Transition ◽  
The One ◽  
Analogue To Digital ◽  
Journalistic Practice ◽  
Over Time ◽  
The Way

In the 50 years of Australian television, the one constant in the nightly schedule has been the news. The story of television news is usually told from the perspective of the news consumer. Even when the set of professional practices that produce news is analysed, the frame used is usually that from in front of the box rather than behind the camera and microphone. The result is that the process of reporting and the way it has changed over time has been given less attention than it deserves. Now, as the medium continues the transition from analogue to digital, Australian television news reporting is undergoing a series of shifts — in its methods of delivery and the tasks that reporters perform. These changes affect the nature of journalistic practice, which in turn bears on the product audiences receive.

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