Forward anchoring in transformative agency: How parents of children with complex feeding difficulties transcend the status quo

Hopwood, N; Pointon, K; Dadich, A; Moraby, K; Elliot, C

Forward anchoring in transformative agency: How parents of children with complex feeding difficulties transcend the status quo

Hopwood, N

Pointon, K Dadich, A Moraby, K Elliot, C

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Publisher:: ELSEVIER SCI LTD
Publication Type:: Journal Article
Citation:: Learning, Culture and Social Interaction, 2022, 33
Issue Date:: 2022-04-01

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dc.contributor.author	Hopwood, N https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2149-5834
dc.contributor.author	Pointon, K
dc.contributor.author	Dadich, A
dc.contributor.author	Moraby, K
dc.contributor.author	Elliot, C
dc.date.accessioned	2022-11-23T04:43:10Z
dc.date.available	2022-11-23T04:43:10Z
dc.date.issued	2022-04-01
dc.identifier.citation	Learning, Culture and Social Interaction, 2022, 33
dc.identifier.issn	2210-6561
dc.identifier.issn	2210-657X
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/163684
dc.description.abstract	To understand how people change the course of their own lives and the lives of those around them, we need to understand the dynamics of agency. Sannino (2015a, 2015b) model of transformative agency by double stimulation (TADS), centres on how people use auxiliary tools to break away from conflicts of motives. Focusing on the serious but overlooked problem of feeding-tube dependency in childhood, the paper asks: How do parents enable their child to feed orally when the ‘given’ future remains dependent on a feeding tube? Analysis of two successful but different processes deploys Sannino's metaphor of forward-anchoring – pulling on stable anchors to move towards unknown solutions. As primary caregivers, two mothers broke away from conflicts of motives by searching, regaining control and then pulling forward on through diverse arrays of actions. The paper contributes new insights in an area where agency is vital yet hardly studied. It reveals how what is often regarded as a biomedical or clinical problem can be understood in radically different, future-oriented terms that recognise parents' agentic contributions, and the everyday means that can be crucial in breaking away from underlying conflicts of motives.
dc.language	English
dc.publisher	ELSEVIER SCI LTD
dc.relation.ispartof	Learning, Culture and Social Interaction
dc.relation.isbasedon	10.1016/j.lcsi.2022.100616
dc.rights	info:eu-repo/semantics/embargoedAccess
dc.subject	1303 Specialist Studies in Education, 1701 Psychology
dc.title	Forward anchoring in transformative agency: How parents of children with complex feeding difficulties transcend the status quo
dc.type	Journal Article
utslib.citation.volume	33
utslib.for	1303 Specialist Studies in Education
utslib.for	1701 Psychology
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
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utslib.copyright.embargo	2024-04-01T00:00:00+1000Z
dc.date.updated	2022-11-23T04:43:09Z
pubs.publication-status	Published
pubs.volume	33

Abstract:

To understand how people change the course of their own lives and the lives of those around them, we need to understand the dynamics of agency. Sannino (2015a, 2015b) model of transformative agency by double stimulation (TADS), centres on how people use auxiliary tools to break away from conflicts of motives. Focusing on the serious but overlooked problem of feeding-tube dependency in childhood, the paper asks: How do parents enable their child to feed orally when the ‘given’ future remains dependent on a feeding tube? Analysis of two successful but different processes deploys Sannino's metaphor of forward-anchoring – pulling on stable anchors to move towards unknown solutions. As primary caregivers, two mothers broke away from conflicts of motives by searching, regaining control and then pulling forward on through diverse arrays of actions. The paper contributes new insights in an area where agency is vital yet hardly studied. It reveals how what is often regarded as a biomedical or clinical problem can be understood in radically different, future-oriented terms that recognise parents' agentic contributions, and the everyday means that can be crucial in breaking away from underlying conflicts of motives.

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