Discourses We Live By
Narratives of Educational and Social Endeavour
What are the influences that govern how people view their worlds? What are the embedded values and practices that underpin the ways people think and act?
Discourses We Live By approaches these questions through narrative research, in a process that uses words, images, activities or artefacts to ask people - either individually or collectively within social groupings - to examine, discuss, portray or otherwise make public their place in the world, their sense of belonging to (and identity with...
Éditeur : Open Book Publishers
Lieu d’édition : Cambridge
Publication sur OpenEdition Books : 6 avril 2021
ISBN numérique : 979-10-365-6303-4
Collection : OBP collection
Année d’édition : 2020
ISBN (Édition imprimée) : 978-1-78374-851-8
Nombre de pages : xxii-638
I. Discourses we live within: frameworks that structure
Hervé Breton
2. From Experience to Language in Narrative Practices in Therapeutic Education in FranceAlan Bainbridge et Linden West
3. Narratives of Fundamentalism, Negative Capability and the Democratic ImperativeII. Discourses we work within: of the workplace
Marianne Høyen et Mumiah Rasmusen
5. Opposing CulturesScience and Humanities Teaching in Danish Schools
Kari Kragh Blume Dahl
6. Shaping ‘the Good Teacher’ in Danish and Kenyan Teacher EducationIII. Discourses we work through: challenges to overcome
Khum Raj Pathak
9. Punishment Discourses in Everyday LifeVera Sheridan
10. Irish Students Turning First-Year Transition Obstacles into Successful ProgressionLaura Formenti, Andrea Galimberti et Mirella Ferrari
11. Care Leavers in ItalyFrom ‘Vulnerable’Children to ‘Autonomous’Adults?
Micaela Castiglioni et Carola Girotti
12. What Game Are We Playing?Narrative Work that Supports Gamblers
IV. Discourses we work around: managing constraining circumstances
Charlotte Mathiassen
13. A Danish Prisoner NarrativeThe Tension from a Multifaceted Identity During (Re-) Entry to Society
Miguel Alberto González González
14. Inclusion and Exclusion in Colombian Education, Captured Through Life StoriesPatric Wallin
15. Navigating Grades and Learning in the Swedish Upper Secondary School Where Neoliberal Values PrevailMarta Zientek
16. Adult Education as a Means to Enable Polish Citizens to Question Media Coverage of Political MessagesV. Discourses that explore or reveal diversity : facing choice and change
Monica Mascarenhas
18. The Needs of Low-Literate Migrants When Learning the English LanguageSimone R. Rasmussen
19. Uncovering Habitus in Life Stories of Muslim ConvertsAnnette Sprung
20. Participatory Approaches in Critical Migration ResearchThe Example of an Austrian Documentary Film
VI. Discourses to support diversity: projects that empower
Adrienne S. Chan
21. Decolonizing and Indigenizing Discourses in a Canadian ContextOuti Ylitapio-Mäntylä et Mari Mäkiranta
22. Embedding Feminist Pedagogies of Care in Research to Better Support San Youth in South AfricaTeresa Brayshaw et Jenny Granville
24. UK Senior Citizens Learn Filmmaking as a Creative Pathway to Reflection and FulfilmentVII. Discourses through a self-reflexive lents: thoughts from researchers
Laura Mazzoli Smith
25. Diversifying Discourses of Progression to UK Higher Education Through Narrative ApproachesHelen Woodley
26. Using Journaling and Autoethnography to Create Counter-Narratives of School Exclusion in BritainHelena Oikarinen-Jabai
27. Reflections on a Creative Arts Project to Explore the Resilience of Young Adults with a Muslim Background in FinlandMarianne Horsdal
28. Discourses, Cultural Narratives, and Genre in Biographical NarrativesA Personal Overview
Hazel R. Wright et Marianne Høyen
Learning from Narratives, Discourses and Biographical ResearchAn Afterword
What are the influences that govern how people view their worlds? What are the embedded values and practices that underpin the ways people think and act?
Discourses We Live By approaches these questions through narrative research, in a process that uses words, images, activities or artefacts to ask people - either individually or collectively within social groupings - to examine, discuss, portray or otherwise make public their place in the world, their sense of belonging to (and identity within) the physical and cultural space they inhabit.
This book is a rich and multifaceted collection of twenty-eight chapters that use varied lenses to examine the discourses that shape people’s lives. The contributors are themselves from many backgrounds - different academic disciplines within the humanities and social sciences, diverse professional practices and a range of countries and cultures. They represent a broad spectrum of age, status and outlook, and variously apply their research methods - but share a common interest in people, their lives, thoughts and actions. Gathering such eclectic experiences as those of student-teachers in Kenya, a released prisoner in Denmark, academics in Colombia, a group of migrants learning English, and gambling addiction support-workers in Italy, alongside more mainstream educational themes, the book presents a fascinating array of insights.
Discourses We Live By will be essential reaoing for adult educators and practitioners, those involved with educational and professional practice, narrative researchers, and many sociologists. It will appeal to all who want to know how narratives shape the way we live and the way we talk about our lives.
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