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    Sensory ways of knowing care – possibilities for reconfiguring ‘the distribution of the sensible’ in paid homecare work

    Harman, Kerry (2021) Sensory ways of knowing care – possibilities for reconfiguring ‘the distribution of the sensible’ in paid homecare work. International Journal of Care and Caring 5 (3), pp. 433-446. ISSN 2397-883X.

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    Abstract

    Calls for the professionalising of homecare are often driven by a perceived gap in knowing ‘good care’. However, many training solutions are underpinned by a cognitivist notion of knowing as a rational process of making sense of sense. A different approach to knowing homecare is provided in this paper based on a very different set of assumptions on knowing and knowledge. Suggestions for researching homecare are provided underpinned by the notion of sensory ways of knowing. These other ways of knowing ‘good care’ potentially reconfigure who and what are able to be attended to in the field of homecare.

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    Item Type: Article
    Additional Information: This is a post-peer-review, pre-copy edited version of the article. The definitive publisher-authenticated version is available online at the link above.
    Keyword(s) / Subject(s): Skills, paid homecare work, sensory ways of knowing, visibility
    School: Birkbeck Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences > School of Social Sciences
    Depositing User: Kerry Harman
    Date Deposited: 08 Jan 2021 07:24
    Last Modified: 02 Aug 2023 18:05
    URI: https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/41682

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