Discourses We Live By

Hazel R. Wright, Marianne Høyen

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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 reading 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.

Sujets

• Sociology

Informations

• Publié par: Open Book Publishers
• Date de parution: 03 juillet 2020
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781783748549
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 5 Mo

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Discourses We Live By
Photo by Tom Perkins, CC-BY 4.0
Discourses We Live By
Narratives of Educational and Social Endeavour
Edited by Hazel R. Wright and Marianne Høyen
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© 2020 Hazel R. Wright and Marianne Høyen. Copyright of individual chapters is maintained by the chapters’ authors.




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Contents
Acknowledgements
ix
Organization of the Book
xi
Notes on Contributors
xiii
Narrative, Discourse, and Biography: An Introductory Story
1
Marianne Høyen and Hazel R. Wright
I.
Discourses we live within: Frameworks that structure
23
1.
Truth and Narrative: How and Why Stories Matter
27
Janet Dyson
2.
From Experience to Language in Narrative Practices in Therapeutic Education in France
53
Hervé Breton
3.
Narratives of Fundamentalism, Negative Capability and the Democratic Imperative
73
Alan Bainbridge and Linden West
4.
Understandings of the Natural World from a Generational Perspective
91
Hazel R. Wright
II.
Discourses we work within: Of the workplace
115
5.
Opposing Cultures: Science and Humanities Teaching in Danish Schools
119
Marianne Høyen and Mumiah Rasmusen
6.
Shaping ‘the Good Teacher’ in Danish and Kenyan Teacher Education
141
Kari Kragh Blume Dahl
7.
Irish Adult Educators Find Fulfilment amid Poor Employment Conditions
163
Sarah Bates Evoy
8.
Nurture Groups: Perspectives from Teaching Assistants Who Lead Them in Britain
185
Tristan Middleton
III.
Discourses we work through: Challenges to overcome
207
9.
Punishment Discourses in Everyday Life
211
Khum Raj Pathak
10.
Irish Students Turning First-Year Transition Obstacles into Successful Progression
225
Vera Sheridan
11.
Care Leavers in Italy: From ‘Vulnerable’ Children to ‘Autonomous’ Adults?
245
Laura Formenti, Andrea Galimberti and Mirella Ferrari
12.
What Game Are We Playing? Narrative Work that Supports Gamblers
269
Micaela Castiglioni and Carola Girotti
IV.
Discourses we work around: Managing constraining circumstances
285
13.
A Danish Prisoner Narrative: The Tension from a Multifaceted Identity During (Re-)Entry to Society
289
Charlotte Mathiassen
14.
Inclusion and Exclusion in Colombian Education, Captured Through Life Stories
311
Miguel Alberto González González
15.
Navigating Grades and Learning in the Swedish Upper Secondary School Where Neoliberal Values Prevail
333
Patric Wallin
16.
Adult Education as a Means to Enable Polish Citizens to Question Media Coverage of Political Messages
353
Marta Zientek
V.
Discourses that explore or reveal diversity: Facing choice and change
379
17.
Examining a Kazakh Student’s Biographical Narrative and the Discourses She Lives By
383
Rob Evans
18.
The Needs of Low-Literate Migrants When Learning the English Language
403
Monica Mascarenhas
19.
Uncovering Habitus in Life Stories of Muslim Converts
425
Simone R. Rasmussen
20.
Participatory Approaches in Critical Migration Research: The Example of an Austrian Documentary Film
445
Annette Sprung
VI.
Discourses to support diversity: Projects that empower
461
21.
Decolonizing and Indigenizing Discourses in a Canadian Context
465
Adrienne S. Chan
22.
Embedding Feminist Pedagogies of Care in Research to Better Support San Youth in South Africa
485
Outi Ylitapio-Mäntylä and Mari Mäkiranta
23.
From Defender to Offender: British Female Ex-Military Re-Joining Civilian Society
501
Linda Cooper
24.
UK Senior Citizens Learn Filmmaking as a Creative Pathway to Reflection and Fulfilment
517
Teresa Brayshaw and Jenny Granville
VII.
Discourses through a SELF-reflexive lens: Thoughts from researchers
545
25.
Diversifying Discourses of Progression to UK Higher Education Through Narrative Approaches
549
Laura Mazzoli Smith
26.
Using Journaling and Autoethnography to Create Counter-Narratives of School Exclusion in Britain
569
Helen Woodley
27.
Reflections on a Creative Arts Project to Explore the Resilience of Young Adults with a Muslim Background in Finland
587
Helena Oikarinen-Jabai
28.
Discourses, Cultural Narratives, and Genre in Biographical Narratives: A Personal Overview
609
Marianne Horsdal
Learning from Narratives, Discourses and Biographical Research: An Afterword
621
Hazel R. Wright and Marianne Høyen
List of Illustrations
633
Index
635
Acknowledgements
As editors, we would like to thank the thirty-five authors whose work appears in this volume for their collective efforts in making this a successful publication and their patience during the lengthy preparatory stages prior to publication. They have provided us with interesting and well-thought-out chapters, and those whose native tongue is other than English, have translated not only their own texts and their narrative data, but also the literature that they cite, making their material readily accessible in a common language to all our readers. For this, also, we are grateful.
We thank Alessandra Tosi and her team of editors and IT experts at Open Book Publishing — particularly Lucy, Luca, Laura and Anna — for helping us to create and disseminate this varied and lengthy coverage of the narratives around discourses in private and professional spaces. Doing this successfully has been a challenging but worthwhile process, and we hope that you will find it a stimulating read.
Special thanks are due to Tom Perkins ( https://tomperkins.info ) for taking and editing the photographs that introduce each section, which, as some of you may recognize, pursue a European theme in keeping with the spatial range of the book. We are grateful, too, for permission to use another of his photographs on the cover. Thanks also to Katie Wright for creating the graphic illustrations from the authors’ originals. We are very grateful to AUFF (the funding arm of Aarhus University, Denmark) for providing financial support for this open access publication.
Organization of the Book
The personal and professional narratives in this book are grouped into seven sections that each takes a different slant on everyday discourses .
There are four distinctive but complementary chapters in each section, and these are preceded by introductory notes that provide an overview and rationale for the section and describe the content and purpose of the individual narrative accounts placed within it.
However, each chapter is fully referenced and complete and can be read independently from those with which it is associated, or alongside other chapters in the book. The sectional structure of the book is laid out below, with further information available in the first chapter, ‘Narrative, Discourse, and Biography: An Introductory Story’. Consider, too, the final chapter, ‘Learning from Narratives, Discourses and Biographical Research’, that draws attention to the new knowledge to be gleaned from a comprehensive reading of the different chapters.
The seven sections are: Discourses We Live Within: Frameworks that Structure Discourses We Work Within: Of the Workplace Discourses We Work Through: Challenges to Overcome Discourses We