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Poole, SimonAffiliation
University of Chester; Storyhouse, Chester.Publication Date
2017-12-04
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As an exploration of how ‘impact’ might be reconsidered, it is suggested 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’. 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 (Ricœur, Reagan, & Stewart, 1978) conflation of the hermeneutical process with phenomenology. 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. Through the introduction of inter-disciplinary thinking and práxes, the article offers novel autoethnographic arts-based methods for personal, professional and organisational development and growth.Citation
Poole, S. E. (2017). Re/searching for ‘Impact’. Journal of Work-Applied Management, 9(2), 147-158. https://doi.org/10.1108/JWAM-07-2017-0022Publisher
EmeraldAdditional Links
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2205-2062ae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.1108/JWAM-07-2017-0022
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