Empathy, Narrative and Cultural Values

我们如何理解我们听到和读到的故事？当我们接受和感同身受一些故事而不是另一些故事时，哪些核心信念在起作用？我们如何更好地理解文化价值观在确保我们对叙事中的某些命题的认同方面所起的作用？在多元文化社会中，更好地理解叙事认同是如何被这些价值观塑造的，可能会带来什么社会效益？这个项目探索了解释性框架和信仰如何影响西米德兰兹郡的南亚穆斯林受试者对叙事的感知和分类。它将找出在鼓励同理心方面最成功的叙事方面，并考虑对叙事要素的认同如何受到信仰和支撑价值观的特定文化方面的影响。该项目专门研究了来自伊斯兰教的文化价值观如何在教育和健康环境中受试者如何定位自己与叙事之间的关系：在英国的两个背景下，被认为是穆斯林价值观的人有时被认为对有效的互动构成了挑战。这一教育分支考虑了文化价值观如何影响南亚穆斯林传统学生对文学文本及其特征的认同，这些学生在伯明翰约瑟夫·张伯伦第六中学(Joseph Chamberlain Sixform College，Birmingham)学习英国文学：一种混合的、多元文化的第六年级。我们的工作将使我们能够为多文化解释性做法的性质以及教育学和教学大纲如何更好地反映这些做法建立一个经验证据基础。在健康方面，我们将重点讲述那些受到癌症诊断影响的人与来自伯明翰绿巷清真寺的“癌症冠军”互动时所产生的叙述。我们将关注他们如何用反映现有文化框架的词语和短语，以叙事形式传达他们的经验和选择。由此制作的视频和工具包将有助于解决大多数保健提供者使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，方法是审查个人在参与保健宣传时如何运用其核心价值观，从而为改善沟通和未来取得更好的结果铺平道路。

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.