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Creative methods: problematics for inquiry and pedagogy in health and social care

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posted on 2023-08-30, 13:27 authored by Paul McIntosh, Paula Sobiechowska
This article provides an overview of initial discussions emerging from the Creative Methods Network, an informal organisation concerned with the use of the creative arts in research, teaching and practice in health and social care. Key issues are presented and contextualised with regard to the current conditions in which health and social care research and education is practised. Our own discussions have come to question the seeming dominance of governance within professional education programmes in which there is a primary focus on developing technical skill and capacity. Such governance often extends itself to the measurement of the implementation of these technical skills and this is set against concerns about the absence of creativity and the humanities in the educational programmes of caring for human beings. Consequently, the article reflects a view that the use of the creative arts and humanities in the education of the human caring professions is being eroded away in favour of technical-rational reasoning. It is argued that this then presents an important problem manifested in an emphasis on established and quantifiable knowledge transfer which inhibits other forms of knowledge generation. For the purposes of this discussion we have viewed this problem through the lenses offered by Foucault and Bourdieu.

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Refereed

  • Yes

Volume

1

Issue number

3

Page range

295-306

Publication title

Power and Education

ISSN

1757-7438

Publisher

SAGE

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  • Accepted version

Language

  • eng

Legacy posted date

2010-10-28

Legacy creation date

2020-10-06

Legacy Faculty/School/Department

ARCHIVED Faculty of Health, Social Care & Education (until September 2018)

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