The purpose of this paper is to contribute to research on organizational identity by developing a psychoanalytic perspective. In particular, the author draws on Lacanian theorizing to explore how organizational identity discourse is informed by imaginary constructions of subjectivity. It is proposed that the collective construction of coherent, unitary, and definably organizational identity discourse is validated by and validates conscious but illusory constructions of the self. The resulting discourse is inevitably disrupted by unconscious subjectivity and invariably fails. Therefore, the collective construction of fragmented, dynamic, and emergent organizational identity discourse is equally inevitable. While such discourse can be illusory, it also contains the opportunity for engaging in liberating struggles with identity as lack. The implications of this perspective for the theory and practice of organizational identity are discussed.

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Struggling with Lack: A Lacanian Perspective on Organizational Identity

This paper begins with a brief discussion of beliefs about the value and nature of aesthetic experience held prior to the author commencing a reflective study. She outlines her desire and initial attempts to understand further the nature of aesthetic experience, then discusses a theory about intimacy that influenced the path of her understanding and the course of her quest to unravel the nature of aesthetic engagement. Although the research spanned more than 5 years, in this paper she focuses on one particular phase that involved a reflective play-building project. The paper outlines the working processes of the play-building group and briefly discusses approaches to data collection and analysis before drawing conclusions about the key characteristics of aesthetic engagement. While she asserts that connection, animation and heightened awareness are the key characteristics of aesthetic engagement, her discussion focuses on the nature of connection. She concludes by drawing attention to aspects of group wor...

Aesthetic engagement in the drama process

The article reviews research on identity in organizations. It suggests that current research reiterates imaginary constructions of identity by which identity can be defined as coherent or fragmente...

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Encountering the Arugula Leaf: The Failure of the Imaginary and its Implications for Research on Identity in Organizations

This paper examines English teachers' understanding of the imagination and how they think it is developed in the classroom. A small sample of Heads of English from East and West Sussex secondary comprehensive schools in the south-east of England were interviewed. Findings are analysed in light of relevant approaches to English teaching over the past century. A complex picture emerges. Teachers' descriptions of the imagination are clearly redolent of Romantic ideas and development of the imagination was expressed as crucial in English teaching. Yet, paradoxically, developing the imagination is no longer seen as a central pedagogic concern. Other influences dominate classroom practice. Assessment of National Curriculum requirements, English teaching conceived as a series of discrete skills and the changing status of the mass media in the curriculum have, it is argued, all contributed to a shift of emphasis. Developing the imagination has been sidelined. Furthermore, innovative approaches from a tradition of...

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Literacy and the lost world of the imagination

Crafts in Canada have persisted and grown over the past century, despite being marginalised by industrialism and globalism. Crafts practice and the education of craftspeople has matured into a broad, expressive, cultural phenomenon. This has been accompanied by the blossoming of scholarship directed at illuminating the essential and distinctive character of crafts practices and objects. This growth has been supported in part by the relationship of crafts to creative visual arts production in the realms of fine arts and design. However, assimilation into the category of visual arts has distorted how crafts activity is understood, valued, and taught. In crafts degree programmes in Canada’s four independent visual arts schools, the legitimate interests of craftspeople in the particular character, challenges, and import of their practices has been undermined by a dominant visual arts paradigm that has imposed ill-fitting curricula structures based on flawed underlying assumptions about crafts as a contemporary art form.
This thesis examines the literature pertaining to crafts and its scholarship. It also provides a valuable portrayal of the historical and current situation of post-secondary professional crafts education at the degree level in the four Canadian art schools offering Bachelor degree in crafts education—Emily Carr University of Art and Design, Alberta College of Art and Design, Ontario College of Art and Design University, and Nova Scotia College of Art and Design University. It then offers a practitioner’s perspective of the crafts world and the nature of crafting activity and creation. Finally it makes an impassioned plea for more concerted efforts to develop crafts scholars and scholarship, and for a well-grounded theoretical basis on which to base an appropriate craft education system tailored to the concerns of the contemporary crafts world. To further this goal, it proposes a framework based on material culture approaches to foster discussion and guide future developments and improvements in crafts education.

How Crafts Matter: Mapping the Terrain of Crafts Study

Part 1 The renewal of aesthetics: modern philosophy and the neglect of aesthetics, Roger Scruton the aesthetic in education, Louis Arnaud Reid. Part 2 Art as the pursuit of truth: the culture of links, Peter Brook art, judgement and belief - towards the condition of music, Michael Tippett. Part 3 The primacy of feeling: the education of feeling, Rex Gibson literature and the education of feeling, L.C.Knights feeling and reason in the arts - the rationality of feeling, David Best. Part 4 The demise of Modernism: the father of art history, Ernst Gombrich the domestication of outrage, Denis Donoghue approaching the end of art, Arthur Danto aesthetics after modernism, Peter Fuller. Part 5 Art and tradition: the arts in education, G.R.Bantock. Part 6 The recognition of myth: myth and education, Ted Hughes myth and identity, Jerome Bruner. Part 7 Art and the creative process: individuation and the creative process, Anthony Storr the pattern of art-making, Peter Abbs. Part 8 The teaching of the arts: art worlds in schools, Maxine Greene teaching poetry, George Whalley purpose in music education, Keith Swanwick and Dorothy Taylor. Part 9 Art and the community: the arts, education and the community, David Aspin. Part 10 Art as affirmation: real presences, George Steiner.

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