Work Transitions as Told: A Narrative Approach to Biographical Learning

Autor/inn/en	Hallqvist, Anders; Hyden, Lars-Christer
Titel	Work Transitions as Told: A Narrative Approach to Biographical Learning
Quelle	In: Studies in Continuing Education, 35 (2013) 1, S.1-16 (16 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0158-037X
DOI	10.1080/0158037X.2012.712037
Schlagwörter	Biographies; Personal Narratives; Story Telling; Role; Reflection; Unemployment; Outplacement Services (Employment); Hermeneutics; Rhetoric; Social Environment; Locus of Control; Context Effect; Foreign Countries; Sweden + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Biography; Biografie; Biographie; Erlebniserzählung; Rollen; Arbeitslosigkeit; Agentur für Arbeit; Hermeneutik; Rhetorik; Soziales Umfeld; Ausland; Schweden
Abstract	In this article, we introduce a narrative approach to biographical learning; that is, an approach that considers autobiographical storytelling as a practice through which claims about life history are performed and negotiated. Using insights from narrative theory, we highlight evaluations in those narratives and suggest their crucial role in promoting self-reflective thought. The research area is unemployment, more specifically, work transitions following company restructuring and redundancy supported by outplacement services. Recognizing the learning potential in autobiographical storytelling, the article examines job-loss narratives told by people made redundant. The analysis focuses on strategies used in moments of evaluation. Our findings point to a variety of rhetorical strategies, different kinds of reflexivity and, in turn, variation in the potential for biographical learning. (Contains 1 table.) (As Provided).
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