The following featured chapters explore Narrative Theory in detail, and can be read in full and/or downloaded as PDFs.
Chapter: A Guide to Life History Interviews
This paper provides a guide to life history interviews and a ten-stage guide to the process of conducting life history interviews.
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Chapter: Learning and Narrative Pedagogy
This paper provides a summary account of the main findings in the book 'Narrative Pedagogy' and brings a particular focus to issues of learning and personal interaction.
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Chapter: Mediation is the Message
This is a conversation with two Argentinean sociologists: Daniel Feldman and Mariano Palamidessi. The conversation focuses on the future prospects for Argentinian society in the face of the demands of the demands of the International Fund.
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Chapter: Narrativity, Learning and Flexibility
This paper summarises some of the main findings in the book Developing Narrative Theory. It is particularly concerned with how narrative character relates to learning and the flexibility of response to new situations.
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Chapter: The Rise of the Life Narrative
This paper looks at the emergence of life narratives and begins to characterise them as a feature of the contemporary moment. It also explores the type of life narrative which is emerging and begins to focus on the notion of narrative capital which is fully explored in the book Developing Narrative Theory.
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Chapter: Towards a Theory of Narrative Learning
This paper develops a series of arguments about the nature of narrative learning and begins to delineate through the investigation of different cases a pattern of narrative learning which could replace some of the more prescriptive.
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The following publications explore Narrative Theory throughout:
Improving Learning through the Lifecourse: Learning Lives
Ths book reports on one of the largest research projects into lifelong learning conducted in recent years. Through 500 in-depth interviews with a cohort of about 120 adults who were followed for three years, the 'Learning Lives' project has built up a detailed understanding of what learning means and does in the lives of adults.
Learning, Curriculum and Life Politics: the selected works of Ivor F. Goodson
In this book Ivor Goodson brings together 19 key writings in one place. Starting with a specially written Introduction, which gives an overview of his career and contextualises his selection within the development of the field, the chapters cover: curriculum history and policy, classroom pedagogy and strategies for professional development and life history, narrative and educational change.
The following publications explore Narrative Theory throughout:
Published: 15/03/2022
Co-author(s): Antikainen, A., Sikes, P., & Andrews, M. (Eds)
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 26/07/2012
Co-author(s): Loveless, A., & Stephens, D. (Eds)
Publisher: Sense PublishersBuy new and used: Amazon
Published: 22/03/2011
Co-author(s): Biesta, G. J. J., Field, J., & Macleod, F. et al
Publisher: Routledge
