Interpreting Experience
The Narrative Study of Lives
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How does context shape biography? How do language and relationships affect the development of people's work lives? An international group of scholars from diverse disciplines addresses these and other issues in this volume of The Narrative Study of Lives. They explore what it means to take narrative seriously and how an empathic stance in narrative research opens out on the dialogic self. The contributors also consider questions of how participants make meaning out of their experience in the framework of available interpretive horizons. In addition, there are sections that use narrative approaches to develop a deeper understanding of loneliness and the "coming out" process in homosexuality. This volume examines the many ways in which people interpret their experience and explores conceptual avenues to make use of these understandings in the analysis of human life.
Those interested in qualitative methods, evaluation, and education research will find Interpreting Experience to be an invaluable contribution.
Contents
Introduction
Introduction
Taking Narrative Seriously
- Consequences for Methods and Theory in Interview Studies
Imagining the Real
- Empathy, Narrative and the Architectonics of the Self
Biographical Work and New Ethnography
Biographical Work and New Ethnography
Life History and Academic Work
- The Career of Professor G
Developmental Patterns of Mathematically Gifted Individuals as Viewed through Their Narratives
Developmental Patterns of Mathematically Gifted Individuals as Viewed through Their Narratives
The Quest for Connectedness
- Loneliness as Process in Narratives of Lonely University Students
It's the Telling that Makes the Difference
It's the Telling that Makes the Difference
Life Histories as Social Texts of Personal Experience in Sociolinguistic Studies
- A Look at the Lives of Domestic Workers in Swaziland
Extending Boundaries
- Narrative on Exchange
Description
How does context shape biography? How do language and relationships affect the development of people's work lives? An international group of scholars from diverse disciplines addresses these and other issues in this volume of The Narrative Study of Lives. They explore what it means to take narrative seriously and how an empathic stance in narrative research opens out on the dialogic self. The contributors also consider questions of how participants make meaning out of their experience in the framework of available interpretive horizons. In addition, there are sections that use narrative approaches to develop a deeper understanding of loneliness and the "coming out" process in homosexuality. This volume examines the many ways in which people interpret their experience and explores conceptual avenues to make use of these understandings in the analysis of human life.
Those interested in qualitative methods, evaluation, and education research will find Interpreting Experience to be an invaluable contribution.
Contents
Introduction
Introduction
Taking Narrative Seriously
- Consequences for Methods and Theory in Interview Studies
Imagining the Real
- Empathy, Narrative and the Architectonics of the Self
Biographical Work and New Ethnography
Biographical Work and New Ethnography
Life History and Academic Work
- The Career of Professor G
Developmental Patterns of Mathematically Gifted Individuals as Viewed through Their Narratives
Developmental Patterns of Mathematically Gifted Individuals as Viewed through Their Narratives
The Quest for Connectedness
- Loneliness as Process in Narratives of Lonely University Students
It's the Telling that Makes the Difference
It's the Telling that Makes the Difference
Life Histories as Social Texts of Personal Experience in Sociolinguistic Studies
- A Look at the Lives of Domestic Workers in Swaziland
Extending Boundaries
- Narrative on Exchange
Interpreting Experience
The Narrative Study of Lives
March 1995 | 280 pages | Sage US
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How does context shape biography? How do language and relationships affect the development of people's work lives? An international group of scholars from diverse disciplines addresses these and other issues in this volume of The Narrative Study of Lives. They explore what it means to take narrative seriously and how an empathic stance in narrative research opens out on the dialogic self. The contributors also consider questions of how participants make meaning out of their experience in the framework of available interpretive horizons. In addition, there are sections that use narrative approaches to develop a deeper understanding of loneliness and the "coming out" process in homosexuality. This volume examines the many ways in which people interpret their experience and explores conceptual avenues to make use of these understandings in the analysis of human life.
Those interested in qualitative methods, evaluation, and education research will find Interpreting Experience to be an invaluable contribution.
Table Of Contents:
- Introduction
- Taking Narrative Seriously
- Consequences for Methods and Theory in Interview Studies
- Imagining the Real
- Empathy, Narrative and the Architectonics of the Self
- Biographical Work and New Ethnography
- Life History and Academic Work
- The Career of Professor G
- Developmental Patterns of Mathematically Gifted Individuals as Viewed through Their Narratives
- The Quest for Connectedness
- Loneliness as Process in Narratives of Lonely University Students
- It's the Telling that Makes the Difference
- Life Histories as Social Texts of Personal Experience in Sociolinguistic Studies
- A Look at the Lives of Domestic Workers in Swaziland
- Extending Boundaries
- Narrative on Exchange