Narrative as resource for the display of self and identity: The narrative construction of an oppositional identity*

dc.contributor.authorGuerrero, Alba Lucyspa
dc.date2011-07-01
dc.date.accessioned2019-09-19T21:23:31Z
dc.date.available2019-09-19T21:23:31Z
dc.descriptionNarrative is a system of understanding that we use to construct and express meaning in our daily lives. The stories we narrate are not justresources for the development and presentation of the individual self; they allow us to see how identity is constructed within social and culturalworlds (Bruner, 1990). Schools and communities play a powerful role in shaping students identities; the ways in which stories are told and theidentities they create are influenced by the environment in which they take place. In this paper, by using excerpts from a conversation I hadwith a High School student in an urban school in Bogotá, I will discuss how narrative analysis can be used to understand the way studentsconstruct their identities within their schools and communities. First, I will present the theoretical contexts linking narrative with self-construction.Next, I will discuss the methodological implications in the process of collecting and representing experiences highlighting the possibilities ofnarrative to make visible the construction of identities. Then pieces of a narrative told in a research interview will be analyzed illustrating differentapproaches of narrative analysis. The paper will conclude with a section that outlines the implications of using narrative in educational research.en-US
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dc.identifierhttps://revistas.udistrital.edu.co/index.php/calj/article/view/3771
dc.identifier10.14483/22487085.3771
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11349/18051
dc.languageeng
dc.publisherUniversidad Distrital Francisco José de Caldasen-US
dc.relationhttps://revistas.udistrital.edu.co/index.php/calj/article/view/3771/5354
dc.sourceColombian appl. linguist. J.; Vol 13, No 2 (2011) July-December; 88 - 99es-ES
dc.sourceColombian Applied Linguistics Journal; Vol 13, No 2 (2011) July-December; 88 - 99en-US
dc.source2248-7085
dc.source0123-4641
dc.subjectNarrative inquiryen-US
dc.subjectIdentity constructionen-US
dc.subjectPositioningen-US
dc.titleNarrative as resource for the display of self and identity: The narrative construction of an oppositional identity*en-US
dc.typeinfo:eu-repo/semantics/article
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