Investigating the Call to Kindness: A Study with Community Participants in Aotearoa New Zealand

Q1 Arts and Humanities Knowledge Cultures Pub Date : 2021-01-01 DOI:10.22381/kc9320212
Sarah Nutbrown
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Here in Aotearoa New Zealand there is a 'call' for kindness often associated with Jacinda Ardern and the Covid-19 response. But how do 'ordinary' people experience and understand kindness? What do their understandings and the tensions within these reveal about the call to kindness? In 2019, we ran a Ropū Whai Whakaaro/Values-Based Practice course in Auckland with 21 community participants. As part of the five-week course, six women aged from 31 to 65 years did a group project on the value of kindness. Analysis of their discussions, presentation and individual interviews suggested a kindness 'trajectory' that was simultaneously held in community and undercut by social forces. Kindness was described as something people 'do' beginning with children who are 'innately' kind, and if practised regularly could flow in all directions. It was portrayed as having radical potential to include and transform, but participants spoke of themselves as imperfect practitioners. We conclude by returning to the call for kindness and, inspired by our participants, suggest that kindness, while in some sense risky and extraordinary, is a practice worth cultivating.
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调查善良的召唤:新西兰奥特罗阿社区参与者的研究
在新西兰奥特罗阿,有一种“呼吁”善良的声音,这种声音往往与杰辛达·阿德恩和新冠疫情应对措施联系在一起。但是“普通人”是如何体验和理解善良的呢?他们对善良的召唤的理解和其中的紧张关系揭示了什么?2019年,我们在奥克兰举办了一个基于价值观的实践课程,共有21名社区参与者。在为期五周的课程中,6名年龄在31岁到65岁之间的女性做了一个关于善良价值的小组项目。对他们的讨论、演讲和个人访谈的分析表明,一种善意的“轨迹”同时存在于社区中,并被社会力量削弱。善良被描述为人们从“天生”善良的孩子开始“做”的事情,如果经常练习,可以向各个方向发展。它被描绘成具有包容和变革的激进潜力,但参与者说自己是不完美的实践者。最后,我们回到对善良的呼吁,并受到参与者的启发,认为善良虽然在某种意义上是冒险和非凡的,但却是一种值得培养的实践。
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Knowledge Cultures
Knowledge Cultures Arts and Humanities-Literature and Literary Theory
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期刊介绍: Knowledge Cultures is a multidisciplinary journal that draws on the humanities and social sciences at the intersections of economics, philosophy, library science, international law, politics, cultural studies, literary studies, new technology studies, history, and education. The journal serves as a hothouse for research with a specific focus on how knowledge futures will help to define the shape of higher education in the twenty-first century. In particular, the journal is interested in general theoretical problems concerning information and knowledge production and exchange, including the globalization of higher education, the knowledge economy, the interface between publishing and academia, and the development of the intellectual commons with an accent on digital sustainability, commons-based production and exchange of information and culture, the development of learning and knowledge networks and emerging concepts of freedom, access and justice in the organization of knowledge production.
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