Full Description
This thought-provoking research anthology adopts a postmodern stance and fills in a gap of knowledge for the education of professional development in teacher education, health sciences and the arts. Allowing subjectivity and multiple voices, the authors add to the intimate and negotiated knowledge of being and becoming - indigenous, architect, mother, teacher, health researcher, and supervisor. In fifteen chapters, the authors share knowledge of pain and reward in critical events in the realm of professional identity formation. The book provides a selection of personal and far-reaching stories and adds to the reflexivity of memories of critical events.
Contributors are: Geir Aaserud, Åsta Birkeland, Bodil H. Blix, Sidsel Boldermo, Mimesis Heidi Dahlsveen, Nanna Kathrine Edvardsen, Rikke Gürgens Gjærum, Tona Gulpinar, Carola Kleemann, Tove Lafton, Mette Bøe Lyngstad, Elin Eriksen Ødegaard, Anna-Lena Østern, Alicja R. Sadownik, Tiri Bergesen Schei and Vibeke Solbue.
Contents
Foreword: Narrative Inquiry: Storying Who We Are
Acknowledgements
List of Figures
Notes on Contributors
1 Beginning with Experience: Introduction
Elin Eriksen Ødegaard, Tiri Bergesen Schei and Mette Bøe Lyngstad
2 Negotiating the Cultural Script of Mothering: Entangling Self-Explorative Narrative Inquiry into a Professional Identity
Elin Eriksen Ødegaard
3 On the Traveling and Turns of Being and Becoming a Narrative Inquirer
Bodil H. Blix
4 Beyond Personal and Political Boundaries: Being and Becoming a Cross-Cultural Researcher and Educator
Åsta Birkeland
5 Am I Sámi Enough? Narratives as a Means of Exploring a Sámi Pedagogy for Kindergarten
Carola Kleemann
6 The Inherent Power of Teachers: An Autobiographical Narrative Inquiry
Tiri Bergesen Schei
7 A Professional Identity Based on an International Career as Engineer: A Childhood Critical Event Impacting Every Fight for Acceptance
Anna-Lena Østern
8 A Tender Narrative on Intra-Active Identity Shaping: A Potty Enters a Kindergarten
Alicja R. Sadownik
9 She's the Lion King!
Sidsel Boldermo
10 A Memory of Experiencing Milk in Kindergarten
Geir Aaserud, Tona Gulpinar and Tove Lafton
11 At the Intersection of Pastoral and Intellectual Support: A Journey of Autoethnographic Narratives on Supervision
Rikke Gürgens Gjærum and Nanna Kathrine Edvardsen
12 It Also Applies to You
Vibeke Solbue
13 The Minotaur Myth, Mimesis and Me
Mimesis Heidi Dahlsveen
14 Q for Quarantine
Rikke Gürgens Gjærum
15 Using Narratives to Understand Professional Identities
Mette Bøe Lyngstad
