Narrative Pedagogy: Life History and Learning

by Ivor F. Goodson and Scherto R. Gill

Book Overview

It is widely recognised that we are living through an 'age of the narrative'. Many of the constituent disciplines in the social sciences resonate with this trend by using life history and narrative approaches and methods. As we move on from the modernist period which prioritised objectivity into the postmodern regard for subjectivity, this resort to narrative is likely to become more apparent and explicit in academic as well as social and commercial...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1433108917
• ISBN13: 9781433108914
• Release Date: December 2010
• Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.9" x 8.7"