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Exploring Learning, Identity and Power Through Life History and Narrative Research.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextPublisher: Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group, 2010Copyright date: ©2010Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (197 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780203858370
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 370.7/2
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Contents:
Book Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Contributors -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- Chapter 2 The ethics of writing life histories and narratives in educational research -- Chapter 3 A process of (un)becoming: Life history and the professional development of teachers -- Chapter 4 Becoming a gay male primary teacher: Dealing with difference -- Chapter 5 Changing identities through re-engagement with education: Narrative accounts from two women learners -- Chapter 6 Interrogating identity and belonging through life history: Experiences of overseas nurses in post-colonial Britain -- Chapter 7 Researching learning in and out of school: A narradigmatic approach -- Chapter 8 Going to the pictures: Learning to see the life histories of minorities within majority narratives -- Chapter 9 In our own words: From actions to dialogue -- Chapter 10 'I lived down the road from you': Exploring power and identity, then and now -- Chapter 11 This do in remembrance of me: Narrative uncertainty and the frothing of contentious identity -- Chapter 12 Life history and narrative research revisited -- Recommended reading -- Index.
Summary: The book brings together a collection of writing by different authors who use a narrative/life history approach to explore the experiences of a wide range of people, reflecting on learning and education at significant moments in their lives.
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Book Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Contributors -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- Chapter 2 The ethics of writing life histories and narratives in educational research -- Chapter 3 A process of (un)becoming: Life history and the professional development of teachers -- Chapter 4 Becoming a gay male primary teacher: Dealing with difference -- Chapter 5 Changing identities through re-engagement with education: Narrative accounts from two women learners -- Chapter 6 Interrogating identity and belonging through life history: Experiences of overseas nurses in post-colonial Britain -- Chapter 7 Researching learning in and out of school: A narradigmatic approach -- Chapter 8 Going to the pictures: Learning to see the life histories of minorities within majority narratives -- Chapter 9 In our own words: From actions to dialogue -- Chapter 10 'I lived down the road from you': Exploring power and identity, then and now -- Chapter 11 This do in remembrance of me: Narrative uncertainty and the frothing of contentious identity -- Chapter 12 Life history and narrative research revisited -- Recommended reading -- Index.

The book brings together a collection of writing by different authors who use a narrative/life history approach to explore the experiences of a wide range of people, reflecting on learning and education at significant moments in their lives.

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