Social justice practice: A narrative inquiry perspective

2017 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 133-143 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vera Caine ◽  
Pam Steeves ◽  
D Jean Clandinin ◽  
Andrew Estefan ◽  
Janice Huber ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Narrative Inquiry ◽  
Relational Understanding ◽  
Dominant Narratives ◽  
Justice Practice

Narrative inquiry is both phenomenon and methodology for understanding experience. In this article, we further develop our understandings of narrative inquiry as a practice of social justice. In particular, we explore ways in which social justice issues can be re-framed and re-imagined, with attention to consequent action. Drawing on work alongside Kevlar, a youth who left school early, we explore our understandings. Being grounded in pragmatism and emphasizing relational understanding of experience situate narrative inquiry and call us to think narratively with stories. This allows for movement away from dominant narratives and toward openings to imagine otherwise in dynamic and interactive ways.

Using client feedback in training of future counseling psychologists: An evidence-based and social justice practice

2015 ◽  
Vol 28 (3) ◽  
pp. 305-323 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexandra M. Minieri ◽  
Robert J. Reese ◽  
Kristin M. Miserocchi ◽  
David Pascale-Hague
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Client Feedback ◽  
Justice Practice ◽  
Counseling Psychologists

Advancing Local, Social, and Ecological Transitions Through Community Development

2021 ◽  
pp. 209-227
Author(s):  
Anne C. Jennings
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Social Work ◽  
Community Development ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Indigenous People ◽  
Environmental Issues ◽  
River Catchment ◽  
The World ◽  
Living Organisms ◽  
Justice Practice

This chapter explores social work and community development practices in light of the urgent social, economic, and environmental issues facing the world today. Can those professions, established to support individuals and communities, overcome social disadvantage, evolve into new, alternative roles that seek combined human and non-human (animals, plants, living organisms) understandings leading towards transformative practices? Those professions are viewed within their own constructs and environmental agendas. Ancient and contemporary Indigenous knowledges are then considered, as they relate to the First Law of caring for their living country and living lifestyles. Two community development case studies are examined, involving non-Indigenous people in their community, and Indigenous traditional owners across a whole river catchment to address key questions: How can those disciplines contribute to ecological transformation? Can they appreciate and include non-humans in their practice? and How can Indigenous ancient and current knowledges contribute to social justice practice?

Narrative Inquiry as a Relational Methodology

2022 ◽  
pp. 1-27
Author(s):  
Vicki G. Mokuria ◽  
Alankrita Chhikara
Keyword(s):  
Narrative Inquiry ◽  
Research Methods ◽  
Research Agenda ◽  
Research Method ◽  
Narrative Research ◽  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
The Status ◽  
Dominant Narratives ◽  
Ways Of Being

The authors present an overview of narrative research and focus primarily on narrative inquiry, highlighting what distinguishes this approach from other research methods. Narrative inquiry allows scholars to go beyond positivism and explore how research can be conducted based on participants' stories, rather than using a purely scientific methodological approach. This research method acknowledges and honors narrative truths and provides a scholarly framework that makes space for voices often marginalized or excluded when dominant narratives and/or data hold a prominent place in a research agenda. As such, narrative inquiry can be used in academic research to challenge the status quo, thus harnessing research to stretch beyond hegemonic ways of being and knowing. The authors provide a robust overview and conceptualization of this approach, along with foundational concepts and exemplars that comprise this method of research.

Decolonizing Development Education and the Pursuit of Social Justice

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 31-46 ◽  
Author(s):  
Farhana Sultana
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Social Justice ◽  
International Development ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Colonial Power ◽  
Power Structures ◽  
Development Education ◽  
Popular Discourse ◽  
Institutional Politics ◽  
Dominant Narratives

Decolonization has become a popular discourse in academia recently and there are many debates on what it could mean within various disciplines as well as more broadly across academia itself. The field of international development has seen sustained gestures towards decolonization for several years in theory and practice, but hegemonic notions of development continue to dominate. Development is a contested set of ideas and practices that are under critique in and outside of academia, yet the reproduction of colonial power structures and Eurocentric logics continues whereby the realities of the global majority are determined by few powerful institutions and a global elite. To decolonize development's material and discursive powers, scholars have argued for decolonizing development education towards one that is ideologically and epistemologically different from dominant narratives of development. I add to these conversations and posit that decolonized ideologies and epistemologies have to be accompanied by decolonized pedagogies and considerations of decolonization of institutions of higher education. I discuss the institutional and critical pedagogical dilemmas and challenges that exist, since epistemological, methodological, and pedagogical decolonizations are influenced by institutional politics of higher education that are simultaneously local and global. The paper engages with the concept of critical hope in the pursuit of social justice to explore possibilities of decolonizing development praxis and offers suggestions on possible pathways forward.

scholarly journals Thinking with Stories

2018 ◽  
Vol 34 (2) ◽  
pp. 207-227 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jessica Shaw
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Clinical Practice ◽  
Social Work ◽  
Narrative Inquiry ◽  
Social Workers ◽  
Research Methodology ◽  
Doctoral Dissertation

As a relational epistemology and research methodology, narrative inquiry is one way that people come to know experience through story. Social workers are experienced in working with people’s stories, yet there is a dearth of literature where both social work and narrative inquiry are discussed alongside each other. This paper highlights the particular ways that a researcher commits to living and understanding a narrative view of experience as they engage in research that is relational. It explains some of the language that narrative inquirers use to describe their work, and uses examples from a social work doctoral dissertation to demonstrate the methodological touchstones of a social work narrative inquiry. It concludes with an invitation for social workers to consider narrative inquiry as a process that can guide and advance both clinical practice and social justice work.

Changing the Narrative

2016 ◽  
Vol 49 (1) ◽  
pp. 9-19 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria J. D’Agostino
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Narrative Inquiry ◽  
Public Administration ◽  
Gender Equality ◽  
Real Progress ◽  
The Difference

The dominant narrative about women’s progress in public administration focuses on identifying the obstacles to that progress and how to overcome them. But to make real progress toward gender equality and social justice, we must rethink our entire approach to research. Understanding the difference women make via narrative inquiry is a necessary change to the prevailing dialectic.

Synergies for Wellness and Liberation in Counseling Psychology

2003 ◽  
Vol 31 (3) ◽  
pp. 273-281 ◽  
Author(s):  
Isaac Prilleltensky ◽  
Ora Prilleltensky
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Counseling Psychology ◽  
Physical Disabilities ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
Practical Application ◽  
The Status ◽  
Alternative Practices ◽  
Justice Practice ◽  
People With Physical Disabilities

Several fields within psychology, including counseling psychology, are struggling to promote a social justice agenda. Most efforts concentrate on a critique of existing values, assumptions, and practices. Whereas the level of critique is quite sophisticated, the level of social justice practice is rather embryonic. Critical psychologists have been constructing alternative practices that strive to go beyond the status quo and its critique. This article proposes an agenda for action that is conductive to wellness and liberation at the same time. The authors recommend several steps for advancing such an agenda. They argue that critical psychologists need to promote synergy between and among (a) diverse values, (b) wellness and liberation, and (c) existing critiques within psychology and other fields. To illustrate practical application, the authors discuss these recommendations in the context of people with physical disabilities.

scholarly journals A Call for Social Justice in the American Counseling Association (ACA)

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 2-12
Author(s):  
Counselors for Social Justice
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
New Orleans ◽  
Counseling Profession ◽  
American Counseling Association ◽  
The People ◽  
National Convention ◽  
Justice Practice

Leaders and members of seven social justice-oriented divisions of the American Counseling Association (ACA) met at a Social Justice Summit called by the Counselors for Social Justice in March 2019 at the ACA National Convention in New Orleans. The goal of the summit was to create conversations among members of these seven divisions around ways to improve social justice within the ACA. These discussions at the summit were transcribed and summarized for the purpose of creating a document to outline how ACA could improve its social justice practice. The resulting call for social justice in ACA includes three topics derived from discussions of social justice in the counseling profession: social justice in the organization of ACA, social justice for the people in ACA, and social justice at the ACA conference. Implications for improved social justice practice in the organization are provided.

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