Homecomer: Reconstruction of relations in families of former prisoners

The article focuses on the family relations of people sentenced to imprisonment. The aim of the project is to study the relations between former prisoners and their family members, particularly to define various strategies of rebuilding family relations, applied by former prisoners in the process of social adaptation. Based on the reconstruction of biographies of adult people who experienced the imprisonment of a parent during their childhood, adolescence and early adulthood, the author characterised various strategies of rebuilding relations, as well as difficulties and setbacks connected with breaking and losing the bond. The study made use of qualitative strategies of sociological analyses (biographical method). 31 narrative interviews with people who experienced penitentiary isolation of their parent (adult children of prisoners, aged between 18 and 70) were conducted as part of the study.

Spreading one’s Wings, Milestones, Deus ex Machina: Self-creation as a Process of Changing Your Life with the Examples of Narrations Provided by Women

This paper presents narrative-biographic research conducted with participation of women who declare that they have introduced important changes into their lives. The qualitative data was collected using narrative interviews as well as a tool to examine changes in the biographic perspective; namely, Line of life. In the presented paper, the authors reconstructed biographical self-creation, meaning the ways of life in which important changes are a central category of a story about life. The authors reconstruct three different ways of narrators’ lives – “spreading one’s wings,” “milestones,” “deus ex machina,” and a case study that describes the process of self-creation and introduction of important changes into a life in more detail.

Ehrenamtliche Arbeit in politischer Mission oder Engagement für „gestrauchelte Menschen“?

ZusammenfassungIm Zentrum des Beitrages steht die Auseinandersetzung mit ehrenamtlicher Arbeit in der DDR-Jugendhilfe. Ein Großteil der Jugendhilfe ist in der DDR von Ehrenamtlichen geleistet worden. Auch waren diese in Entscheidungen bzw. die Vorbereitung von Entscheidungen der Jugendhilfe involviert. Dennoch steht die systematische Auseinandersetzung hiermit noch aus, da die bisherige Aufarbeitung vor allem die DDR-Heimerziehung fokussiert. Konkret geht es im Beitrag um das Wirken von sog. Jugendhelfer*innen, die sich – neben ihrer Berufstätigkeit – in Jugendhilfekommissionen ehrenamtlich für die Jugendhilfe vor Ort auf kommunaler Ebene und vor allem im Vorfeld bzw. zur Verhinderung von Heimerziehung engagierten. Der Artikel präsentiert u. a. Ergebnisse einer Vorstudie der Autorinnen, die sich mit den Motivationen von Jugendhelfer*innen sowie den gesetzlichen und ideologischen Rahmungen ihrer Arbeit auseinandergesetzt haben. Empirische Basis sind narrative Interviews mit ehemaligen Jugendhelfer*innen. Anhand eines „Eckfalls“ werden exemplarisch die handlungsleitenden Normative und Machtpotenziale im Zusammenspiel mit biographischen Themen herausgearbeitet, die die Tätigkeit von Jugendhelfer*innen (mit) strukturierten.

Lives turned upside down in COVID-19 times: exploring disabled people's experiences in 5 low-and-middle income countries using narrative interviews

This article explores COVID-19 related experiences of disabled people in Bangladesh, Kenya, Nigeria, Nepal and Uganda. Narrative interviews generated storied responses, focussing on respondents' priorities, which enabled us to hear what was most significant for them and their families. 143 interviews were conducted online or by phone by 7 local researchers (3 disabled), with appropriate inclusive support. Nearly everyone was interviewed twice to capture the progression of impacts over time. The data was analysed thematically through a virtual participatory approach.An overarching 'subjective' theme of feelings experienced by the participants was labelled 'destabilisation, disorientation and uncertainty'. We also identified 'concrete' or material impacts. People experienced various dilemmas such as choosing between securing food and keeping safe, and tensions between receiving support and feeling increased vulnerability or dependence, with interplay between the emotions of fear, loss and hope. We found both the concept of liminality and grief models productive in understanding the progression of participants' experiences. Disabled people reported the same feelings, difficulties and impacts as others, reported in other literature, but often their pre-existing disadvantages have been exacerbated by the pandemic, including poverty, gender and impairment related stresses and discrimination, inaccessible services or relief, and exclusion from government initiatives.

Das Fremdwerden der eigenen Stadt

Ständige Erneuerung, Erweiterung und rigoroser Umbau prägen die Stadt Istanbul - insbesondere seit den 1950er Jahren. Was bedeutet eine derart rasante Urbanisierung für ihre Einwohner*innen? Welche (neuen) Räume werden in der Megacity relevant? Verliert die Stadt als Ort an Bedeutung und wird »just a spot«? Lisanne Riedel verbindet biographisch-narrative Interviews mit dem sozialräumlichen Erleben und rekonstruiert urban-migrantische Lebensgeschichten, die von sozialen Aufstiegen handeln, aber auch von Entfremdung und Überforderung durch die sich stetig verändernde Umwelt.

Facing Loss and Finding Hope in Narrating Together: Accounts of Parenthood Following the Death of a Child to Muscular Dystrophy

Muscular dystrophy is a terminal muscle-wasting condition, whereby families face continuous challenges as their child’s health deteriorates. This research explored accounts of parenthood following bereavement of their child to muscular dystrophy. Narrative inquiry was used to analyse interviews with four couples. Findings suggest an importance in narrating adversities ( waking up to different futures) and positive influence ( creating legacies). The research highlighted how humour is often used to support others to witness painful accounts ( humour through the struggle). Parents appeared to co-regulate the painfulness of narrating loss ( storytelling together). Further research is needed on conjoint narrative interviews and how these may enable participants to address shared loss experiences. Practitioners who support bereaved parents could consider the potential value highlighted in this study of meeting with parents conjointly, which include that, through co-regulatory, collaborative processes, families seemed to be supported to reach narrative cohesion, sensitively and safely, when facing loss and bereavement.

NARRATIVAS DE PROFESSORES INICIANTES E A FORMAÇÃO EM PEDAGOGIA EAD

Esse artigo tem como foco compreender como se dá o início da carreira docente para professores que realizaram o curso de Pedagogia EaD e como eles analisam essa formação. Buscou-se compreender como se deu o ingresso na carreira docente de cinco professores iniciantes, acerca dos espaços formativos e das narrativas sobre sua formação. Esse artigo compõe uma tese de doutorado no formato multipaper, realizada com financiamento CAPES. Os dados foram produzidos a partir de entrevistas narrativas e identificou-se, nas narrativas dos depoentes, a incerteza do que é o “fazer docente” e como os conhecimentos teóricos se aproximam das práticas do professor em sala de aula. Palavras-chave: formação; professor iniciante; narrativas.NARRATIVES OF BEGINNING TEACHERS AND PEDAGOGY EDUCATION THROUGH DISTANCE LEARNINGAbstractThis paper is part of a doctoral thesis in the multi-paper format, carried out with CAPES funding. It focuses on the beginning of the teaching career of teachers who studied Pedagogy through a Distance Education (DE) program and their analysis of this training. We sought to understand how five teachers entered the teaching career, how they perceive this formative space and their education narratives. In narrative interviews that generated the data for the research, the interviewees revealed their uncertainty about the nature of the “teaching activity” and how theoretical knowledge approaches the teacher's practices in the classroom.Keywords: professional education; teacher; narrative.NARRATIVAS DE PROFESORES PRINCIPIANTES Y LA LICENCIATURA EN PEDAGOGÍA A DISTANCIAResumenEste artículo, el cual forma parte de una tesis doctoral en formato multi-paper llevada a cabo con fondos CAPES, se centra en el comienzo de la carrera docente de los profesores que hicieron la licenciatura en Pedagogía en la modalidad EaD y en cómo ellos analizan esa formación. Intentamos comprender cómo cinco profesores ingresaron a la carrera docente, cómo perciben ese espacio formativo y las narrativas sobre su formación. En las entrevistas narrativas que generaron los datos para la investigación, los entrevistados revelaron la incertidumbre sobre lo que es el "quehacer docente" y la forma en que los conocimientos teóricos se acercan a las prácticas del profesor en el aula.Palabras clave: formación; profesor principiante; narrativas.

Narrativas de Trabalhadoras Rurais: a Construção da Subalternidade, os Espaços Hierarquizados e a Dominação Colonial

In this research, our aim is to analyze how gender relations are manifested in the narratives of women rural workers, in coffee farming in the Cerrado Mineiro Region, in a post-colonial perspective. It is a qualitative research, the empirical material of which consists of narrative interviews conducted with 14 rural coffee workers in the municipalities of Patrocínio, Carmo do Paranaíba and Monte Carmelo, in the state of Minas Gerais. The empirical material was submitted to the thematic analysis technique. The results suggest that gender relations are expressed through inheritances of colonialism, which constitute the themes identified: (1) constructed subordination; (2) hierarchical spaces; and (3) colonial domination.

Narratives From Women Rural Workers: The Construction of Subalternity, Hierarchized Spaces and Colonial Domination

In this research, our aim is to analyze how gender relations are manifested in the narratives of women rural workers, in coffee farming in the Cerrado Mineiro Region, in a post-colonial perspective. It is a qualitative research, the empirical material of which consists of narrative interviews conducted with 14 rural coffee workers in the municipalities of Patrocínio, Carmo do Paranaíba and Monte Carmelo, in the state of Minas Gerais. The empirical material was submitted to the thematic analysis technique. The results suggest that gender relations are expressed through inheritances of colonialism, which constitute the themes identified: (1) constructed subordination; (2) hierarchical spaces; and (3) colonial domination.