Empathy, Narrative and Cultural Values

同理心、叙事和文化价值观

• 批准号: AH/Y000978/1
• 负责人: Peter Morey
• 金额: $ 89.36万
• 依托单位: University of Birmingham
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2023 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FY000978%2F1
• 关键词: Empathy; Narrative; Cultural; Values

How do we make sense of the stories we hear and read? What core beliefs are at work when we accept and empathise with some stories but not with others? How do we better understand the part cultural values play in securing our assent for certain propositions within narrative? And what social benefits might accrue from a better understanding of how narrative identification is shaped by such values in a multicultural society?This project explores how explanatory frameworks and beliefs affect how South Asian Muslim subjects in the West Midlands perceive and categorise narratives. It will locate those aspects of narrative that are most successful in encouraging empathy and consider how identification with elements of narrative is influenced by faith and culture-specific aspects of underpinning values. The project looks specifically at how cultural values derived from Islam play a part in how subjects place themselves in relation to narratives in educational and health settings: two contexts in Britain where perceived 'Muslim values' are sometimes seen to present a challenge to effective interactions. The education strand considers how cultural values inform identification with literary texts and their characters for South Asian Muslim heritage students taking English Literature at A Level at Joseph Chamberlain Sixth Form College, Birmingham: a mixed, multicultural sixth form. Our work will allow us to build an empirical evidence base for the nature of multicultural interpretative practices and how pedagogy and the syllabus can better reflect them. In the health strand, we will focus on the narratives produced by those affected by cancer diagnoses in their interactions with 'Cancer Champions' from Green Lane Masjid, Birmingham. We will attend to how they communicate their experience and choices in narrative form, using words and phrases which reflect existing cultural frameworks. The resulting video and toolkit will help to address the disconnect between the essentially secular, individualistic narratives employed by most health providers and the worldviews of Muslim users by examining how individuals bring to bear their core values when engaging with health messaging, thereby paving the way improved communications and better outcomes in the future.

我们如何理解我们听到和读到的故事？当我们接受和同情一些故事而不接受另一些故事时，什么核心信念在起作用？我们如何更好地理解文化价值观在确保我们同意叙事中的某些命题方面所起的作用？在多元文化社会中，更好地理解这些价值观是如何塑造叙事认同的，会带来什么样的社会效益？该项目探讨了解释框架和信仰如何影响西米德兰兹郡南亚穆斯林主体对叙事的感知和分类。它将定位那些方面的叙事是最成功的鼓励同情，并考虑如何识别叙事元素是由信仰和文化的具体方面的基础价值观的影响。该项目专门着眼于如何从伊斯兰教派生的文化价值观中发挥的一部分，在主题如何将自己的叙事在教育和健康设置：在英国的两个背景下，认为“穆斯林价值观”有时被视为提出了挑战，有效的互动。教育链考虑文化价值观如何告知文学文本及其字符识别南亚穆斯林遗产的学生采取英国文学在约瑟夫·张伯伦第六形式学院，伯明翰的水平：一个混合的，多元文化的第六形式。我们的工作将使我们能够建立一个经验证据基础的多元文化解释实践的性质，以及如何教学和教学大纲可以更好地反映他们。在健康链中，我们将重点关注那些受癌症诊断影响的人在与伯明翰绿色巷清真寺的“癌症冠军”互动时所产生的叙述。我们将关注他们如何以叙事形式传达他们的经验和选择，使用反映现有文化框架的单词和短语。由此产生的视频和工具包将有助于解决大多数卫生服务提供者所采用的基本上世俗的个人主义叙述与穆斯林用户的世界观之间的脱节问题，方法是研究个人在参与卫生信息传递时如何体现其核心价值观，从而为改善沟通和未来取得更好的成果铺平道路。