Up Close and Personal : The Teaching and Learning of Narrative Research

by Josselson, Ruthellen

• ISBN13: 9781557989406
• ISBN10: 1557989400
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-11-01
• Publisher: Amer Psychological Assn

Summary

Up Close and Personal: The Teaching and Learning of Narrative Research, the second volume in the series The Narrative Study of Lives, brings together a diverse group of narrative research scholars who share their actual experiences of learning, teaching, working, and growing in this exciting field. The wide variety of innovative approaches and expansive theoretical perspectives they offer will be immensely helpful to those who are learning or teaching qualitative methods." "In this volume, chapter authors successfully challenge readers to think about narrative research in its own context while also maintaining original, personal voices that underscore the value this field places on an individual's communication of his or her experience. By revealing their struggles with qualitative research's emerging and evolving processes and their experiences working with students at various educational levels, these authors subtly, but effectively, arm teachers with tools that ant

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	vii
Contributors	ix
Introduction	3	(10)
Painting Lessons	13	(16)
Suzanne C. Ouellette
An Epistemological Approach to the Teaching of Narrative Research	29	(20)
Blythe McVicker Clinchy
Qualitative Research in Psychology: Teaching an Interpretive Process	49	(12)
Annie G. Rogers
Researchers as Protagonists in Teaching and Learning Qualitative Research	61	(18)
Colette Daiute
Michelle Fine
Learning to Listen: Narrative Principles in a Qualitative Research Methods Course	79	(22)
Susan E. Chase
Listening to Holocaust Survivors: Interpreting a Repeated Story	101	(12)
Henry Greenspan
Teaching Interpretation	113	(22)
Richard Ochberg
Task, Process, and Discomfort in the Interpretation of Life Histories	135	(16)
George C. Rosenwald
The Prototypical Scene: A Method for Generating Psychobiographical Hypotheses	151	(26)
William Todd Schultz
A Psychological Perspective on the Relationship of William and Henry James	177	(22)
James William Anderson
Writers as Readers in Narrative Inquiry: Learning From Biography	199	(16)
Steven Weiland
Braiding Essence: Learning What I Thought I Already Knew About Teaching Qualitative Research	215	(24)
Margot Ely
Dialogic Pedagogy: Developing Narrative Research Perspectives Through Conversation	239	(20)
Mary Gergen
Sara N. Davis
A Framework for Narrative Research Proposals in Psychology	259	(16)
Ruthellen Josselson
Amia Lieblich
Author Index	275	(4)
Subject Index	279	(8)
About the Editors	287