Life history and narrative

Hatch, J. Amos; Wisniewski, Richard

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“…As a researcher, I sought to stay away from the tendency to place emphasis on my perceptions, to avoid what some researchers refer to as nouveau solipsism. Hatch and Wisniewski (1995) suggest a strong tendency among scholars to reflect on their work and their place in it rather than to do the work. Elbaz-Luwisch (2007) also posited that "although narrative inquiry has already made a significant contribution to the development of…public language…narrative inquiry, indeed, confronts a range of problems resulting from the difficulty of presenting a complex, layered, and dynamic reality" (p. 253).…”

Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Preparing School Leaders to Interrupt Racism at Various Levels in Educational Systems

Boske

2015

IJME

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This narrative inquiry seeks to advance the field of educational leadership preparation by exploring ways to interrupt personal, interpersonal, and institutional racism through the senses-ways in which people perceive their experiences and relation to others. Findings suggest that participants engage in actions aligned with revelations from their reflective process and utilize their positions as a lever to address racism at various levels within educational systems. Participants utilized their transformed storied selves to challenge the disparate impact of power and privilege on educational and social equity within school communities.

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Section: Methodsmentioning

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Preparing School Leaders to Interrupt Racism at Various Levels in Educational Systems

Boske

2015

IJME

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“…Until recently much of the work on people's narratives and stories has been empirical, but there has been a growing body of work at a theoretical level (see, for example, Hatch and Wisniewski 1995, Hinchman and Hinchman 1997, Somers 1994. Somers' work is particularly interesting from the perspective of this paper as it serves to link at a conceptual level lay knowledge in the form of narratives with our discussion above of 'place' as the location for structuration.…”

Section: Linking Narratives and Placementioning

confidence: 96%

Theorising Inequalities in Health: The Place of Lay Knowledge

Popay

Williams

Thomas

et al. 1998

Sociology Health & Illness

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This paper contributes to the development of theory and research on inequalities in health. Our central premise is that these are currently limited because they fail adequately to address the relationship between agency and structure, and that lay knowledge in the form of narrative has a significant contribution to make to this endeavour. The paper is divided into three sections. In the first section we briefly review the existing, largely quantitative research on inequalities in health. We then move on to consider some of the most significant critiques of this body of work highlighting three issues: the pursuit of overly simple unidimensional explanations within 'risk factor' epidemiology and the (probably inevitable) inability of this research tradition to encompass the full complexity of social processes; the failure to consider the social context of individual behaviour and, in particular, the possibility for, and determinants of, creative human agency; and, thirdly, the need for 'place' and 'time' (both historical and biographical) to be given greater theoretical prominence. In the final section of the paper the potential theoretical significance of 'place' and 'lay knowledge', and the relationship between these concepts, in inequalities research is explored. Here we suggest three developments as a necessary condition for a more adequate theoretical framework in this field. We consider first the need for the conceptualisation and measurement of 'place' within a historical context, as the location in which macro social structures impact on people's lives. Second, we argue for a re-conceptualisation of lay knowledge about everyday life in general and the nature and causes of health and illness in particular, as narratives which have embedded within them explanations for what people do and why -and which, in turn, shape social action. Finally, we suggest that this narrative knowledge is also the medium through which people locate themselves within the places they inhabit and determine how to act within and upon them. Lay knowledge therefore offers a vitally important but neglected perspective on the relationship between social context and the experience of health and illness at the individual and population level.

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“…In the example study, the graduates' study paths were viewed from the perspective of positive psychological concepts by employing various narrative analyzing methods to highlight the different voices and thoughts in the data. The principle of dialectics includes the idea that the researcher should discuss the interpretations with the research participants (Heikkinen et al, 2012;see Harré & Secord, 1972;Hatch & Wisniewski, 1995;Moen, 2006). This is not always possible in research for various reasons.…”

Section: The Narrative Approach In the Reliability Evaluation Of The mentioning

confidence: 99%

How to implement the narrative approach in different phases of a positive psychological research? A four-dimensional analysis

Salmela

Uusiautti

2017

IJRSP

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This article discusses the nature and core of narrative research by reflecting on the various elements of the narrative research approach in an example study that focused on high-achieving Finnish graduates' study paths in a positive psychological study. The dimensions of the narrative research approach analyzed in this article were (1) the narrative approach in the meta-theoretical basis of the research; (2) the narrative approach in data collection; (3) the narrative approach in data analyses; and (4) the narrative approach in the reliability evaluation of the research.

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Life history and narrative

Cited by 161 publications

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Preparing School Leaders to Interrupt Racism at Various Levels in Educational Systems

Preparing School Leaders to Interrupt Racism at Various Levels in Educational Systems

Theorising Inequalities in Health: The Place of Lay Knowledge

How to implement the narrative approach in different phases of a positive psychological research? A four-dimensional analysis

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