Out of Order: To Debbie and Dave, Chris and Bill, MJ and John

Authors

  • Katherine Bright
  • Merilee Brockway
  • Gelenn Carrera
  • Barbara Kathol
  • Elizabeth Keys
  • Nancy J Moules University of Calgary
  • Alexandra Robinson
  • Lorraine Smith-MacDonald
  • Anila Virani

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.11575/jah.v0i1.53258

Keywords:

grief, death of a child, hermeneutics, interpretation

Abstract

In this paper, a professor and a group of doctoral students reflect on the video Out of Order: Dealing with the Death of a Child, treating the video as research on the topic of grief. The video was shown to the group and then all individuals offered pieces of interpretive writing to represent their understanding of what the “participants†in the video were helping us understand about the topic.

Keywords: grief, death of a child, hermeneutics, interpretation

References

1 Note: The film is called Out of Order: Dealing with the Death of a Child ©, produced by Calgary Health Services Grief Support Program and the University of Calgary. Calgary, AB, Canada. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzaMEAQ7FnI

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Moules, N.J. (2002). Hermeneutic Inquiry: Paying heed to history and Hermes. An ancestral, substantive, and methodological tale. International Journal of Qualitative Methods 1(3), 1-21.

Moules, N.J., McCaffrey, G., Field, J.C., & Laing, C.M. (2015). Conducting hermeneutic research: From philosophy to practice. New York, NY: Peter Lang.

Wallace, B. (1985). What it comes to mean. In B. Wallace, Common magic (pp. 76-77). Ottawa, ON, Canada: Oberon.

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2016-11-18

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