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This question above is at the core of much of what I believe Heidegger wanted us to understand about worker and workplace. To find answers we need phenomenological research and investigation into the workplace. Researchers of their own communities of practice—workplace researchers—are researchers who, while retaining their established role in a community, add to it the role of insider-researcher for a specific purpose and duration. Moreover, this new role is negotiated within the context of their ongoing work with the intention of maintaining their community membership, once the research has been completed.
A second concerns a prejudice which merely constitutes the counterpart to the uncritical approach of generating constructions and theorizing. This is the demand for observation which is free of standpoints. The second prejudice is even more disastrous for research because with its express watchword for the seemingly highest idea of science and the objectivity, it in fact elevates taking an uncritical approach into a first principle and promulgates a fundamental blindness.
(Heidegger, Ontology–The Hermeneutic of Facticity, 2008, p. 63)
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Gibbs, P. (2011). Practical Wisdom and the Workplace Researcher. In: Heidegger’s Contribution to the Understanding of Work-Based Studies. Professional and Practice-based Learning, vol 4. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-3933-0_11
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