Jan Parker
Biographic Data
| ID | 5651387 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jan Parker |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jan |
| FAMILY NAME | Parker |
| SIGNATURE | PARKER J |
| AFFILIATIONS | The Open University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 13 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Accounting for Dignity in the Iliad, Ajax, Electra, and the Clinical Encounter
This essay explores as "dignity-denuding" case studies Greek tragic protagonists in order to discuss the ethical problematics involved in "accounting for" such figures: i.e. both diagnosing them and constructing (broken) narratives into which they are fitted. Starting with epic's positive constructions of "aidōs" (shame), it contrasts Ajax and Phaedra-each deprived of their dignity by what one psychiatrist called a "violent storm"-as seeking to c…
Stories, narratives, scenarios in Medicine
This Medical Humanities Special Issue critiques and reflects on narrative practices around medical, psychiatric and trauma care. This introductory article explores the affordances of patient experience narratives and scenarios to illuminate lives interrupted by medical and psychological crises while raising questions about the medical ethics, epistemological frameworks and potential pathologising of diagnosing complex conditions. It discusses the…
Peer-review journals, blogs and Twitter
Disciplinarity vs. creativity? Of design thinking and ‘the metacognitive mind’
Something adequate’? In memoriam Seamus Heaney, Sister Quinlan, Nirbhaya
Seamus Heaney talked of poetry's responsibility to represent the ‘bloody miracle’, the ‘terrible beauty’ of atrocity; to create ‘something adequate’. This article asks, what is adequate to the burning and eating of a nun and the murderous gang rape and evisceration of a medical student? It considers Njabulo Ndebele's answer: the retelling of the story in the service of ‘love and politics’, and that of the South African playwright, Yael Farber, wh…
Critical-creative writing and theory of/and practice
Digital humanities, digital futures
Tradition, Translation, Trauma
This book is concerned with how Classic texts — mainly Greek and Latin but also Arabic and Portuguese — become present in later cultures and how they resonate in the modern. This book examines the topic in different ways. Some discuss singular encounters with the Classic — those of Heaney, Pope, Fellini, Freud, IbnQutayba, Cavafy and others — and show how translations engage with the affective impact of texts over time and space. Chapters offer i…
What have the Humanities to Offer 21st-Century Europe
The Humanities have much to offer 21st-century Europe, in terms of both method and issues which may complement and correct those of Science and Social Science. These include, for instance, humanities' generation of plural narratives and plural explanations, of attention to singularity and complexity, and to others' sensibilities and ways of knowing. These disciplines provide higher order skills needed to engage and engage with the New Europe — rh…
Future Priorities of the Humanities in Europe
Conference Review
Access and Transition to Higher Education
Writing, Revising and Practising the Disciplines
Two centres of pedagogic excellence and innovation, the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and Cornell University’s Knight Institute for Writing in the Disciplines are influencing ideas and pedagogic practice outside as well as inside the US. The movement for scholarship of teaching which resulted in and is developed by the Carnegie’s Scholars Program, demands status and energy to be devoted to the proper study of university teac…
The Unconscious State of Social Psychology
Future Priorities of the Humanities in Europe
What have the Humanities to Offer 21st-Century Europe
The Humanities have much to offer 21st-century Europe, in terms of both method and issues which may complement and correct those of Science and Social Science. These include, for instance, humanities' generation of plural narratives and plural explanations, of attention to singularity and complexity, and to others' sensibilities and ways of knowing. These disciplines provide higher order skills needed to engage and engage with the New Europe — rh…
Disciplinarity vs. creativity? Of design thinking and ‘the metacognitive mind’
Digital humanities, digital futures
Writing, Revising and Practising the Disciplines
Two centres of pedagogic excellence and innovation, the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and Cornell University’s Knight Institute for Writing in the Disciplines are influencing ideas and pedagogic practice outside as well as inside the US. The movement for scholarship of teaching which resulted in and is developed by the Carnegie’s Scholars Program, demands status and energy to be devoted to the proper study of university teac…
The Unconscious State of Social Psychology
Access and Transition to Higher Education
Writing, Revising and Practising the Disciplines
Two centres of pedagogic excellence and innovation, the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and Cornell University’s Knight Institute for Writing in the Disciplines are influencing ideas and pedagogic practice outside as well as inside the US. The movement for scholarship of teaching which resulted in and is developed by the Carnegie’s Scholars Program, demands status and energy to be devoted to the proper study of university teac…
Conference Review
Future Priorities of the Humanities in Europe
What have the Humanities to Offer 21st-Century Europe
The Humanities have much to offer 21st-century Europe, in terms of both method and issues which may complement and correct those of Science and Social Science. These include, for instance, humanities' generation of plural narratives and plural explanations, of attention to singularity and complexity, and to others' sensibilities and ways of knowing. These disciplines provide higher order skills needed to engage and engage with the New Europe — rh…
Tradition, Translation, Trauma
This book is concerned with how Classic texts — mainly Greek and Latin but also Arabic and Portuguese — become present in later cultures and how they resonate in the modern. This book examines the topic in different ways. Some discuss singular encounters with the Classic — those of Heaney, Pope, Fellini, Freud, IbnQutayba, Cavafy and others — and show how translations engage with the affective impact of texts over time and space. Chapters offer i…
Digital humanities, digital futures
Disciplinarity vs. creativity? Of design thinking and ‘the metacognitive mind’
Something adequate’? In memoriam Seamus Heaney, Sister Quinlan, Nirbhaya
Seamus Heaney talked of poetry's responsibility to represent the ‘bloody miracle’, the ‘terrible beauty’ of atrocity; to create ‘something adequate’. This article asks, what is adequate to the burning and eating of a nun and the murderous gang rape and evisceration of a medical student? It considers Njabulo Ndebele's answer: the retelling of the story in the service of ‘love and politics’, and that of the South African playwright, Yael Farber, wh…
Critical-creative writing and theory of/and practice
Peer-review journals, blogs and Twitter
Stories, narratives, scenarios in Medicine
This Medical Humanities Special Issue critiques and reflects on narrative practices around medical, psychiatric and trauma care. This introductory article explores the affordances of patient experience narratives and scenarios to illuminate lives interrupted by medical and psychological crises while raising questions about the medical ethics, epistemological frameworks and potential pathologising of diagnosing complex conditions. It discusses the…
Accounting for Dignity in the Iliad, Ajax, Electra, and the Clinical Encounter
This essay explores as "dignity-denuding" case studies Greek tragic protagonists in order to discuss the ethical problematics involved in "accounting for" such figures: i.e. both diagnosing them and constructing (broken) narratives into which they are fitted. Starting with epic's positive constructions of "aidōs" (shame), it contrasts Ajax and Phaedra-each deprived of their dignity by what one psychiatrist called a "violent storm"-as seeking to c…
Psychology (11 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Art (9 works) · Philosophy (7 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Epistemology (5 works) · Literature (5 works) · Mathematics education (5 works) · Pedagogy (5 works) · Political science (5 works)