May 23rd: advanced doctoral seminar NARRATIVE ANALYSIS
PhD students… as you are planning your schedules for the upcoming year, I thought you might be interested in the following special topics course in Term 2.
If you have questions, please contact me.
EPSE 681B 074
NARRATIVE INQUIRY
The story reveals the meaning of what otherwise would remain an unbearable sequence of sheer happenings. Hannah Arendt, Men in Dark Times
Sandra Mathison
Th 4:30 – 7:30 pm, W2
Pre-requisite: an introductory graduate level course in qualitative research This course is for doctoral students.
Course Description:
This course focuses on the philosophical and technical aspects of narrative inquiry, including:
the origins of narrative inquiry in life histories (such as Znaniecki, The Polish Peasant, Goffman, Presentation of Self in Everyday Life, Garfinkel study of Agnes), the philosophical grounding of narrative inquiry (the historical roots of narrative inquiry in German idealism, the postmodern views of Lyotard and Foucault, Bruner naturalist conception of narrative knowledge, Ricoeurs conception of time, and John Deweys notions of experience), and the pragmatics (data collection and analysis) of doing narrative inquiry.
Narratives take many forms (spoken, written, performed) and occur in a variety of situations (conversations, political speeches, media, online forums, social interactions) and at many levels (individual, community, nation states). Narratives are told by a single speaker, co-constructed by interlocutors, or manifest in cultural artifacts. Narratives can unfold in a single context or be developed across different settings and sites of interaction. Narrative analysis examines how social life is conceptualized in the form of stories, with characters, plot structures and time boundaries, and in both descriptive and critical ways.
Sandra Mathison
Professor
Co-Editor, Critical Education
Faculty of Education
University of British Columbia
2125 Main Mall
Vancouver, BC
Canada V6T 1Z4
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