Contents
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Acknowledgements |
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Organization of the Book |
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Notes on Contributors |
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Narrative, Discourse, and Biography: An Introductory Story |
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Discourses we live within: Frameworks that structure |
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Truth and Narrative: How and Why Stories Matter |
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From Experience to Language in Narrative Practices in Therapeutic Education in France |
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Narratives of Fundamentalism, Negative Capability and the Democratic Imperative |
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Understandings of the Natural World from a Generational Perspective |
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Discourses we work within: Of the workplace |
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Opposing Cultures: Science and Humanities Teaching in Danish Schools |
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Shaping ‘the Good Teacher’ in Danish and Kenyan Teacher Education |
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Irish Adult Educators Find Fulfilment amid Poor Employment Conditions |
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Nurture Groups: Perspectives from Teaching Assistants Who Lead Them in Britain |
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Discourses we work through: Challenges to overcome |
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Punishment Discourses in Everyday Life |
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Irish Students Turning First-Year Transition Obstacles into Successful Progression |
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Care Leavers in Italy: From ‘Vulnerable’ Children to ‘Autonomous’ Adults? |
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What Game Are We Playing? Narrative Work that Supports Gamblers |
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Discourses we work around: Managing constraining circumstances |
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A Danish Prisoner Narrative: The Tension from a Multifaceted Identity During (Re-)Entry to Society |
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Inclusion and Exclusion in Colombian Education, Captured Through Life Stories |
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Navigating Grades and Learning in the Swedish Upper Secondary School Where Neoliberal Values Prevail |
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Adult Education as a Means to Enable Polish Citizens to Question Media Coverage of Political Messages |
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Discourses that explore or reveal diversity: Facing choice and change |
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Examining a Kazakh Student’s Biographical Narrative and the Discourses She Lives By |
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The Needs of Low-Literate Migrants When Learning the English Language |
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Uncovering Habitus in Life Stories of Muslim Converts |
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Participatory Approaches in Critical Migration Research: The Example of an Austrian Documentary Film |
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Discourses to support diversity: Projects that empower |
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Decolonizing and Indigenizing Discourses in a Canadian Context |
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Embedding Feminist Pedagogies of Care in Research to Better Support San Youth in South Africa |
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From Defender to Offender: British Female Ex-Military Re-Joining Civilian Society |
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UK Senior Citizens Learn Filmmaking as a Creative Pathway to Reflection and Fulfilment |
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Discourses through a SELF-reflexive lens: Thoughts from researchers |
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Diversifying Discourses of Progression to UK Higher Education Through Narrative Approaches |
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Using Journaling and Autoethnography to Create Counter-Narratives of School Exclusion in Britain |
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Reflections on a Creative Arts Project to Explore the Resilience of Young Adults with a Muslim Background in Finland |
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Discourses, Cultural Narratives, and Genre in Biographical Narratives: A Personal Overview |
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Learning from Narratives, Discourses and Biographical Research: An Afterword |
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List of Illustrations |
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Index |
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