Embodied Narratives: Connecting stories, bodies, cultures and ecologies

by Laura Formenti (Editor), Linden West (Editor), Marianne Horsdal (Editor)

Overview

Auto/biography and life history methods can generate deep and rich insights into human life and learning. As this book shows, they also celebrate the complexity and interdependence of the many aspects and levels of life that are kept separate by the hegemonic view of learning and research, which is overly functionalist, reductionist, disembodied, and disconnected. In fact, stories are a powerful means to illuminate the connections between emotions and meaning, contents and contexts, body and physical space, subjectivities and social structures - at a micro, messo, and macro level - in adult and lifelong learning. A community of researchers, who regularly meet to share ideas and methods, is involved here, building a framework - not unique, but pluralistic and complex - for rethinking about narrative methods as not only addressed to words, events, and meanings, as it is usually thought, but to relationships, contexts, voices, images and metaphors, urban and natural places, cultures, and ecologies.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9788776747473
Publisher:	University Press of Southern Denmark
Publication date:	03/12/2014
Pages:	308
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 8.75(h) x 0.90(d)

Table of Contents

Editors' notes and ackowledgements 9

About the editors and contributors 11

Chapter 1 Introduction: only connect, the parts and the whole: the role of biographical and narrative research? Laura Formenti Linden West Marianne Horsdal 21

Chapter 2 The body and the environment in autobiographical narratives and in autobiographical narrative research Marianne Horsdal 47

Chapter 3 When Bourdieu met Winnicott and Honneth: bodily matters in the experiences of non-traditional learners Linden West 61

Chapter 4 A body of words: body, language and meaning in biographical research Rob Evans 83

Chapter 5 'Subject figurations' within modernity: the change of autobiographical formats Peter Alheit 107

Chapter 6 The myth of birth: autobiography and family memory Laura Formenti 129

Chapter 7 Interrelations between narration, identity and place Juan Carlos Pita Castro 149

Chapter 8 Non-traditional students and imagined social capital: the resources of an embodied mind Andrea Galimberti 173

Chapter 9 Literacy and the social environment when the context sets the agenda for learning Christopher Parson Samra Tabbai Amelia 191

Chapter 10 Narrative learning for non-traditional students: a model for intervention in higher education Maria Francesca Freda Giovanna Esposito Maria Luisa Martino José González-Monteagudo 213

Chapter 11 The relationship between students originating from sub Saharan Africa and patients, during vocational training courses in nursing in Switzerland Myriam Graber 239

Chapter 12 Biographical learning: a process for recovering the soul in nursing Lioba Howatson-Jones Claire Thurgate 255

Chapter 13 Interaction between body and environment in Steveston Recollected Catherine Karen Roy 275

Chapter 14 Embodied interviewing: searching for illumination Rebecca Corfield 287

Postscript: Sheild of Tears Nora Bateson 303