This paper presents a participant-centred virtue ethics approach, the Ọmọlúàbí moral-ethical framework, which moves beyond researcher-centred reflexivity to incorporate participants’ moral virtues within broader research framework. It demonstrates methodical application of framework during with rural Yorùbá communities in Northcentral Nigeria through principles continuity; adherence local and n...

In this article, we discuss the centrality of improvisation for teaching, based particularly on readings Cassin (2014, 2020), Rancière (1991, 1999, 2013, and Bailey (1992). Our starting point is that there simply can be no teaching without improvisation, i.e., delicate practice responding to, situating, attuning to events within educational encounters cannot foreseen, but constantly call attent...

Family medicine is currently undergoing a transformation and, amid such change, the medical home has emerged as the new polestar. This article examines the medical home through the lens of philosopher Alasdair MacIntyre and offers a perspective, informed by Hubert Dreyfus and Peter Senge, about medical homes as practical sites of formation for family physicians. The intellectual past of family ...

ntelligent human action is goal-directed, but when pain, fear, or danger intrude, it is difficult to sustain the mental equilibrium to follow through, even if the goal is very important and the action critical. Hence, the need for courage. As Aquinas put it, the virtue of courage is "to remove any obstacle that withdraws the will from following the reason."1 Such overcoming of dangers, pain, an...

Abstract In this article, I deal with the notion of ‘academic identity’ holistically, seeking to bring together teacher and researcher roles academics in neoliberal university. The article begins from perspective early-career who occupy majority fixed-term, teaching-only contracts Higher Education, arguing that such casualisation academic labour entrenches role as Homo economicus . Drawing on w...

3. Animal knowledge is essentially apt belief, to be distinguished from the more demanding reflective knowledge. This is not to say that the word ‘knows’ is ambiguous. Maybe it is, but distinguishing a kind of knowledge as “animal” knowledge requires no commitment to that linguistic thesis. Indeed it requires no definition of the word ‘knows’ at all. One might take this to be primitive and stil...