Narrative inquiry on the process of identity formation in career transition experiences: Focused on the novelist Lim’s life story

2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 71-89
Author(s):  
Ki-Hong Kim ◽  
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Hyun-Young Cho
Keyword(s):  
Narrative Inquiry ◽  
Identity Formation ◽  
Life Story ◽  
Career Transition ◽  
Transition Experiences

Blessing’s (Life) Story: An Adolescent in Residential Care Living with HIV

2019 ◽  
Vol 31 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jenita Chiba ◽  
Jeanette Schmid
Keyword(s):  
Identity Formation ◽  
Residential Care ◽  
Antiretroviral Treatment ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Life Story ◽  
Care Facility ◽  
Hiv Positive ◽  
Residential Care Facility ◽  
Living With Hiv ◽  
Specific Construction

The lifespan of perinatally HIV-infected children in South Africa has increased owing to the availability of antiretroviral treatment, allowing growth into adolescence and beyond. There is limited knowledge of the lived realities of adolescents with HIV. This paper, using life story methodology and based on Blessing’s narrative, provides an intersectional, complex view of the experience of one such teenager who is perinatally HIV-positive, was abandoned by his family and is living in a residential care facility. His story powerfully illuminates the specific construction of adolescence in this context, focusing on identity formation and the need for connection. The narrative also points to service providers’ practice when engaged with such youths.

Narrative inquiry as cultural psychology

2011 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 345-352 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sunil Bhatia
Keyword(s):  
Narrative Inquiry ◽  
Identity Formation ◽  
Significant Role ◽  
Cultural Psychology ◽  
Indian Diaspora ◽  
Multiple Forms ◽  
Narrative Psychology ◽  
Sociocultural Contexts ◽  
And Migration

In this article, I re-examine Jerome Bruner’s vision of narrative psychology that he laid out over two decades ago. In particular, I argue that narrative inquiry must focus on identities located in sociocultural contexts of transnational movement and migration. The contact of self with multiple forms of otherness — both subtle and violent — play a significant role in identity formation. I discuss two examples from the Somalian and Indian diaspora to show how the study of these fractured, shifting, and hybridized identities provide a very valuable site from which narrative psychology has an opportunity to remake itself as a field that continues to be relevant in a world that is rapidly becoming transnational, diverse, and global.

Composing Lives Alongside

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-14
Author(s):  
Derek A. Hutchinson ◽  
M. Shaun Murphy
Keyword(s):  
Narrative Inquiry ◽  
Social Relationships ◽  
Life Stories ◽  
Life Story ◽  
Gender And Sexuality ◽  
Ongoing Process ◽  
The Social ◽  
Curriculum Making ◽  
Stories To Live By

Drawing on a broader narrative inquiry into the curriculum making of participants who compose identities dissonant with dominant stories of gender and sexuality, this article explores the shaping influence of the social (relationships, communities, and contexts) in one participant's life story around sexuality from a curricular perspective. The term curriculum making represents an ongoing process through which individuals make sense and meaning of experience, position curriculum broadly as a course of life, and shift notions of curriculum and curriculum making beyond the bounds of school. Individuals engage in identity making as they make sense of themselves in relation to their curriculum making, narratively understood as the composition of stories to live by. This inquiry highlights the ways that life stories are composed alongside, connected to, and shaped by other people and draws the attention of educators to the complex lives unfolding in schools.

scholarly journals Inner change and sustainability initiatives: exploring the narratives from eco-villagers through a place-based transformative learning approach

2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 395-409 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. R. Pisters ◽  
H. Vihinen ◽  
E. Figueiredo
Keyword(s):  
Transformative Learning ◽  
Narrative Inquiry ◽  
Life Story ◽  
Analytical Framework ◽  
Intentional Communities ◽  
Learning Approach ◽  
Fourth Dimension ◽  
Empirical Results ◽  
Sustainability Initiatives ◽  
Life Story Interviews

AbstractIn an earlier work, we suggested that connection, compassion and creativity could be used as key analytical dimensions of transformative place-based learning (Pisters et al. in Emot Sp Soc 34(8):100578, 2019). This analytical framework was created to study processes of place-based transformative learning which evoke shifts in our consciousness. This inner change might well be critical in the development of regenerative practices and places. This article aims to critically investigate the framework empirically using life-story interviews with people living in three different ecovillages. Ecovillages are so-called intentional communities which aim to develop sustainable, regenerative ways of living. Methodologically, the research is grounded in an ethnography and narrative inquiry. Following the empirical results, we will reflect on the merits and shortcomings of the analytical framework. The article concludes that the framework proved useful for its purpose if it includes a fourth dimension of 'transgression' and portraits the dimensions as continua.

“Sowing the Story”: Narrative Identity and Emerging Adult Formation

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 92-109
Author(s):  
David Setran
Keyword(s):  
Identity Formation ◽  
Emerging Adults ◽  
Spiritual Formation ◽  
Narrative Identity ◽  
Life Story ◽  
Emerging Adult ◽  
Biblical Story ◽  
Christian Educators

Looking at the challenges of emerging adult spiritual formation, it appears that faith is often disconnected from the process of identity formation taking place at this time of life. In order to foster spiritual formation, Christian educators can benefit from the insights of those writing about emerging adult “narrative identity,” the weaving together of past, present, and future experiences into a coherent life story. This article details some of the key insights of these theorists and articulates the need for emerging adults to form their own narrative identities with reference to the larger biblical story. It then offers a framework for how the biblical story can be “sown” in their lives through ritual, rhetoric, roles, and relationships.

Hidden Voices of Japanese Returnees: The Quest for Identity and Life Trajectories

Humaniora ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 91-99
Author(s):  
Firman Budianto
Keyword(s):  
Identity Development ◽  
Identity Formation ◽  
Host Country ◽  
Japanese Society ◽  
Life Story ◽  
Social Contexts ◽  
Bicultural Identity ◽  
Life Trajectories ◽  
Life Trajectory ◽  
The Impact

The research aimed to discuss and analyze Japanese returnees’ life story and self-perception on their identity by emphasizing how the host country affected their identity development as well as their vision on the future. The data were drawn from in-depth interviews with three kikokushijo students and qualitatively analyzed. The research finds three areas related to how the host country shaped their identity and future life trajectory; the development of bicultural identity, the feeling of being kikokushijo in Japanese society nowadays, and the impact of living overseas to future life trajectory. Three kikokushijos in the research demonstrate the different processes in their bicultural identity formation. Among the key factors in such a process are the family and school. The social contexts of the country where they resided play a greater role not in shaping their cultural identity, but in shaping their life trajectories, particularly, their career aspirations and future mobility. However, the research suggests that the discourse on kikokushijo paves the way to the idea of individualism and heterogeneity in Japanese society.

Phoenix Rising: An Autoethnographic Account of a Gifted Black Male With Dyslexia

2017 ◽  
Vol 40 (2) ◽  
pp. 135-151 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shawn Anthony Robinson
Keyword(s):  
Theoretical Model ◽  
Narrative Inquiry ◽  
Identity Formation ◽  
Research Design ◽  
Research Methodology ◽  
Black Male ◽  
Lived Experiences ◽  
Research Question ◽  
Central Research ◽  
Personal Experiences

The purpose of this study was to describe my academic journey as a gifted Black male with dyslexia. The central research question was the following: What were some of the stories along my academic pathway that seem significant? The research design positioned me inside the culture in which I am the topic of examination. The research methodology used for my analysis was autoethnography, which allows personal experiences to be explored through the intersection between narrative inquiry and ethnography. The approach allowed me to fully articulate my lived experiences, which provided a deeper understanding on how the intersectionality of race, dyslexia, and giftedness influenced my identity formation. An analysis of my journey led to the finding that the intersection of identity categories must be attended to, in order to support the learning of students with “triple-identity.” The article presents a theoretical model for exploring the intersectionality of those elements.

scholarly journals Links Between Life Stories and Identity Profiles in Emerging Adults From Georgia

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (6) ◽  
pp. 422-433 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nino Skhirtladze ◽  
Nino Javakhishvili ◽  
Seth J. Schwartz ◽  
Koen Luyckx
Keyword(s):  
Identity Development ◽  
Identity Formation ◽  
Emerging Adults ◽  
Personal Identity ◽  
Life Stories ◽  
Life Story ◽  
Case Examples ◽  
Life Story Interview ◽  
Dual Cycle ◽  
Quantitative And Qualitative Methods

In this study, we examine personal identity formation using two approaches: a dual-cycle model of identity development and a narrative life-story model. We used quantitative and qualitative methods for studying personal identity: Luyckx et al.’s Dimensions of Identity Development Scale and D. P. McAdams’ life-story interview. Using six cases selected from a sample of 62 Georgian emerging adults, we illustrate how identity profiles created using six identity dimensions (exploration in breadth, commitment-making, identification with commitment, reflective exploration in depth, reconsideration of commitment, and ruminative exploration) are reflected in life stories depicting participants’ paths toward identity commitments and their ideas about the future and life themes. This article demonstrates how identity dimensions are connected to the context and how this connection is manifested in their life stories. The research illustrates theoretical exemplification by case studies and exemplifies the manifestation of dual-cycle identity development theorizing in case examples through narratives.

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