{"id":1419,"date":"2010-06-02T04:01:00","date_gmt":"2010-06-02T04:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/actionresearchplus.com\/2010\/06\/02\/reciprocity-relationship-and-covenantal-ethics-mary-brydon-miller\/"},"modified":"2016-11-16T23:15:38","modified_gmt":"2016-11-16T23:15:38","slug":"reciprocity-relationship-and-covenantal-ethics-mary-brydon-miller","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/actionresearchplus.com\/reciprocity-relationship-and-covenantal-ethics-mary-brydon-miller\/","title":{"rendered":"Reciprocity, Relationship, and Covenantal Ethics &#8211; Mary Brydon-Miller"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>In their article, \u201c<a bitly=\"BITLY_PROCESSED\" href=\"http:\/\/arj.sagepub.com\/cgi\/content\/abstract\/6\/3\/305\">Reciprocity:\u00a0 An Ethic for Community-based Participatory Action Research<\/a>\u201d, authors Sarah Maiter, Laura Simich, Nora Jacobson, and Julie Wise define reciprocity as \u201can ongoing process of exchange with the aim of establishing and maintaining equality between parties\u201d and explore how this notion might inform our understanding of the ethical implications of community-based participatory action research.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>This concept of reciprocity relates closely to the idea of community covenantal ethics that I\u2019ve been exploring in some of my own r<a bitly=\"BITLY_PROCESSED\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Handbook-Social-Research-Ethics-ebook\/dp\/B0026RIC96\/ref=dp_kinw_strp_1?ie=UTF8&#038;m=AG56TWVU5XWC2\">ecent work<\/a>.\u00a0 I first came across the concept of covenantal ethics in the work of my friend <a bitly=\"BITLY_PROCESSED\" href=\"http:\/\/arj.sagepub.com\/cgi\/content\/abstract\/4\/1\/23\">Anne Inga Hilsen<\/a> (include link to Arj, 4(1), 23-36) in which she cites the work of William May, a physician whose book, <i><a bitly=\"BITLY_PROCESSED\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Physicians-Covenant-Images-Healer-Medical\/dp\/0664222749\">The Physician\u2019s Covenant<\/a><\/i> lays out some basic principles of covenantal ethics.\u00a0 Anne Inga describes how this informs her work as an action researcher, \u201cI suggest that AR can also be seen as a covenant between the researchers and the local participants.\u00a0 Instead of doing good to serve my own needs or act as rational contractual action, I will argue that AR, from my position, can be seen as entering into a covenant with the local participants\u201d (2006, 27-28).\u00a0 <\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>This covenant is founded in the notions of reciprocity and relationship.\u00a0 In their article, Maiter and her colleagues provide a very clear and complete discussion of how they designed and carried out a community-based participatory action research project designed to examine the issue of mental health care among diverse communities in Ontario, Canada. At the same time, they also help to deepen our thinking of the ethical implications of our work as action researchers<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Brydon-Miller, M. (2009).\u00a0 Covenantal ethics and action research:\u00a0 Exploring a common foundation for social research.\u00a0 In D. Mertens &#038; P. Ginsberg (Eds.), The Handbook of Social Research Ethics (pp. 243-258).\u00a0 Los Angeles: SAGE Publications.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>May, W. F. (2000).\u00a0 The physician\u2019s covenant:\u00a0 Images of the healer in medical ethics (2<sup>nd<\/sup> ed.).\u00a0 Louisville, KY:\u00a0 Westminster John Knox Press.\u00a0<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In their article, \u201cReciprocity:\u00a0 An Ethic for Community-based Participatory Action Research\u201d, authors Sarah Maiter, Laura Simich, Nora Jacobson, and Julie Wise define reciprocity as \u201can ongoing process of exchange with the aim of establishing and maintaining equality between parties\u201d and explore how this notion might inform our understanding of the ethical implications of community-based participatory [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48,"featured_media":1649,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[749,730,765],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Reciprocity, Relationship, and Covenantal Ethics - 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