Narrative identity

Abstract: International Advisory Board Members Preface Acknowledgments PART I - Situating Narrative Inquiry - D. Jean Clandinin CHAPTER 1 - Locating narrative inquiry historically: Thematics in the turn to narrative - Stefinee Pinnegar & J. Gary Daynes CHAPTER 2 - Mapping a landscape of narrative inquiry: Borderland spaces and tensions - D. Jean Clandinin & Jerry Rosiek PART II - Starting With Telling Stories - Janice Huber CHAPTER 3 - Narrative inquiry in archival work - Barbara Morgan-Fleming, Sandra Riegle, & Wesley Fryer CHAPTER 4 - The unsayable, Lacanian psychoanalysis, and the art of narrative interviewing - Annie G. Rogers CHAPTER 5 - Autobiographical understanding and narrative inquiry - Mark Freeman CHAPTER 6 - Talking to learn: The critical role of conversation in narrative inquiry - Sandra Hollingsworth & Mary Dybdahl CHAPTER 7 - Charting the life story's path: Narrative identity across the life span - Jenna Baddeley & Jefferson A. Singer CHAPTER 8 - The language of arts in a narrative inquiry landscape - Dilma Maria de Mello CHAPTER 9 - The life story interview as a bridge in narrative inquiry - Robert Atkinson PART III - Starting With Living Stories - Stefinee Pinnegar CHAPTER 10 - Relational reverberations: Shaping and reshaping narrative inquiries in the midst of storied lives and contexts - Cheryl J. Craig & Janice Huber CHAPTER 11 - Composing a visual narrative inquiry - Hedy Bach CHAPTER 12 - My story is my living educational theory - Jean McNiff CHAPTER 13 - From Wilda to Disney: Living stories in family and organization research - David M. Boje PART IV - Narrative Inquiry in the Professions - Barbara Morgan-Fleming CHAPTER 14 - Studying teachers' lives and experience: Narrative inquiry into K-12 teaching - Freema Elbaz-Luwisch CHAPTER 15 - Narrative inquiry in and about organizations - Barbara Czarniawski CHAPTER 16 - Acted narratives: From storytelling to emergent dramas - Cheryl Mattingly CHAPTER 17 - Narrative inquiry in the psychotherapy professions: A critical review - Catherine Kohler Riessman & Jane Speedy PART V - Complexities in Narrative Inquiry - Janice Huber and Stefinee Pinnegar CHAPTER 18 - Understanding young children's personal narratives: What I have learned from young children?s sharing time narratives in a Taiwanese kindergarten classroom - Min-Ling Tsai CHAPTER 19 - Exploring cross-cultural boundaries - Molly Andrews CHAPTER 20 - Mo'olelo: On culturally relevant story making from an indigenous perspective - Maenette K. P. Benham PART VI -Narrating Persisting Issues in Narrative Inquiry - Barbara Morgan-Fleming CHAPTER 21 - The ethical attitude in narrative research: Principles and practicalities - Ruthellen Josselson CHAPTER 22 - In-forming re-presentations - Margot Ely PART VII - Future Possibilities - D. Jean Clandinin CHAPTER 23 - Narrative inquiry: What possible future influence on policy and practice? - Nona Lyons CHAPTER 24 - Looking ahead: Conversations with Elliot Mishler, Don Polkinghorne, and Amia Lieblich - D. Jean Clandinin & M. Shaun Murphy Author Index Subject Index About the Editor About the Contributors

Abstract: In the life story, autobiographical remembering and self-understanding are combined to create a coherent account of one's past. A gap is demonstrated between developmental research on the story-organization of autobiographical remembering of events in childhood and of life narratives in adulthood. This gap is bridged by substantiating D. P. McAdams's (1985) claim that the life story develops in adolescence. Two manifestations of the life story, life narratives and autobiographical reasoning, are delineated in terms of 4 types of global coherence (temporal, biographical, causal, and thematic). A review of research shows that the cognitive tools necessary for constructing global coherence in a life story and the social-motivational demands to construct a life story develop during adolescence. The authors delineate the implications of the life story framework for other research areas such as coping, attachment, psychotherapeutic process, and the organization of autobiographical memory.

Abstract: INTRODUCTION 1. Restorying the Self PART I: ENVISIONING A SOCIAL SELF 2. Formulating a Social Self 3. The Dark Side 4. Two Options for the Postmodern Self 5. Ending the Story in Interpretive Practice PART II: THE EVERYDAY TECHNOLOGY OF SELF CONSTRUCTION 6. Narrating the Self 7. Producing Self in Talk and Interaction 8. Conditions of Self Construction 9. Material Mediations CONCLUSION 10. The Moral Climate of the Self We Live By

Abstract: This article is focused on the growing empirical emphasis on connections between narrative and self-development. The authors propose a process model of self-development in which storytelling is at the heart of both stability and change in the self. Specifically, we focus on how situated stories help develop and maintain the self with reciprocal impacts on enduring aspects of self, specifically self-concept and the life story. This article emphasizes the research that has shown how autobiographical stories affect the self and provides a direction for future work to maximize the potential of narrative approaches to studying processes of self-development.