This text has become a performance of (affirmative) entrepreneurship. This is done by a set of writing (and methodological) techniques: autoethnography, the triptych of mimesis, poiesis, kinesis and a life journey that forms the base of the chapter. As such, this text challenges some well-known shortcomings of entrepreneurship research such as being enacted by a distant observer/writer, decontextualized accounts of entrepreneurship and disregard of creativity and playfulness. The main contribution of the chapter is methodological, in its broadest sense (Steyaert, 2011): I propose autoethnography as “more than method” for engaging with processes of (affirmative) Entrepreneuring that speak to the increased attention for narrativity and playfulness in entrepreneurship (see for example Hjorth, 2017: Hjorth and Steyaert, 2004: Gartner, 2007; Johannisson, 2011). The autoethnographic story offers an engaging and relevant account of the practice of entrepreneurship and provides rich emic insight into the socio-materiality of lived experience. It also highlights the temporality of entrepreneurship – both in terms of chronos (continuous flow of time) and Kairos (taking advantage of the “right moment”) (Johannisson, 2011). And as I continue performing affirmations, I am curious how you are Entrepreneuring your life – tell me. This is a draft chapter/article. The final version is available in Research Handbook on Entrepreneurial Behavior, Practice and Process edited by William B. Gartner and Bruce T. Teague, published in 2020, Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788114523
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The COVID-19 pandemic led to an accelerated implementation of digital solutions, such as online proctoring. In this paper we discuss how the use of an ethical matrix may influence the way in which digital solutions are applied. To initiate an ethical discussion, we conducted an online workshop with educators, examiners, controllers, and students to identify risks and opportunities of online proctoring for various stakeholders. We used the Ethical Matrix to structure the meeting. We compared the outcome of the workshop with the outcomes of a proctoring software pilot by examiners. We found that the two approaches led to complementary implementation criteria. The ethical session was less focused on making things work and more on transparency about conditions, processes, and rights. The ethical session also concentrated more on the values of all involved rather than on fraud detection effectiveness
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Higher educational institutions incorporate projects into their curricula, in which students, together with educators, researchers and professionals from practice, try to find solutions for real, societal problems, to develop relevant skills. Because such solutions are increasingly digital with high impact on society, ethical responsibility is an important part of these skills. In this study, we analyze two cases of digital innovation projects in higher education in which the concept of the Ethical Matrix is adapted and integrated in a Value Sensitive Design approach and applied by educators (case 1) and by students (case 2). We find that an adapted version of the Ethical Matrix supports educators and students in taking values of different types of stakeholders into account which leads to different design choices.
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Developmental Transformations (DvT), a practice involving interactive, improvisational play in pairs or groups, has gained international appeal as a therapeutic intervention for different populations in a variety of health, care and recreational contexts. However, a rigorous review of the benefits of DvT has not been conducted. The purpose of this study was to review extant literature for the observed benefits of DvT, identify gaps in the literature and make recommendations concerning future research including identifying possible areas for outcome measurement for preliminary studies. The authors, who each completed training in this approach, conducted a scoping review of English-language, published, peer-reviewed and grey DvT literature through 2021. From an initial 745 records retrieved through databases and a manual search, 51 publications met criteria, which, when analysed using in-vivo and pattern coding, resulted in a total of seventeen categories of observed benefits ascribed to DvT. These included six general categories – relational, emotional, social, cognitive, behavioural and physical benefits – and eleven complex categories of benefits to participants across the lifespan. In addition to benefits for participants, benefits of DvT were also observed and reported for facilitators, therapists, teachers and supervisors engaged in this practice. This review revealed inconsistencies regarding the reporting of practitioner training, frequency, format, population, intended goals, assessment measures and outcomes. Future studies with increased experimental rigor, standardized outcome measures and consistent reporting are recommended.
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In mijn promotieonderzoek heb ik mij gericht op het identificeren van inspiratiebronnen voor profes-sionalisering in de vorm van persona’s, die ik beelden van de professional heb genoemd (De Jonge, 2015). Mijn aanvankelijk plan was om deze bronnen vruchtbaar te maken voor professionaliserings-trajecten, maar mijn promotor stelde een andere richting voor. Voorbeelden van zulke beelden zijn de reflectieve praktijkwerker (Schön, 1983), de presentiebeoefenaar (Baart, 2001), de intrapreneur (Pin-chot, 1985) en de democratische professional (Dzur, 2008). De normatieve professional (Kunneman, 1996) is een beeld dat ik in mijn promotieonderzoek heb opgenomen. Later heb ik betoogd dat ook de muzische professional (Van Rosmalen, 1996) zo’n inspirerend beeld is (De Jonge, 2019b). Dit postdoc-onderzoek kan worden opgevat als een zoektocht om de inspiratie van de normatieve professional en de muzische professional op praktische wijze met elkaar te verbinden tot wat ik – in navolging van Banks’ (2016) concept van ‘ethics work’ – muzisch ethiekwerk heb genoemd. Dit schilderij van mijn vrouw associeerde ik met de dappere en moeizame pogingen van professionals om zich op de juiste wijzen te verhouden tot de complexe contexten waarin zij opereren. Ik gebruikte het voor het omslag van mijn dissertatie. Dit onderzoeksrapport is het verslag van een verkennend postdoc onderzoek naar de potentiële meer-waarde van de theatrale dialoog als ethische interventie voor sociale professionals. De theatrale dia-loog is een muzische werkvorm die ontwikkeld is door Bart van Rosmalen (1996). De kern ervan is dat twee personen in een woordeloze interactie om beurten houdingen of posities ten opzichte van elkaar innemen. In deze verkenning is onderzocht of deze non-verbale werkvorm behulpzaam kan zijn om ethische vraagstukken van sociale professionals te verhelderen. Hierbij is gebleken dat deze interven-tie het ethisch actorschap (Keinemans, De Jonge & Kloppenburg, 2014) van professionals stimuleert, hen aanzet tot ethiekwerk (Banks, 2016). De professionals die aan het onderzoek hebben deelgeno-men, hebben naar eigen zeggen de meerwaarde van deze muzische interventie ervaren. De theatrale dialoog als een vorm van muzische professionalisering bezit dan ook de potentie om de ethische pro-fessionalisering van sociale professionals te bevorderen.
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