SYMP 240 - At the conjunction of the theory and method: A dynamic narrating approach
A dynamic narrating approach (Daiute, 2010; 2014) we present in this symposium is a methodological embodiment of a cultural-historical activity theory premise of the interdependence of the individual with the social, the material, and the historical. Dynamic narrating is dialectical in the sense that it does not study the problems while they ‘stand still’; rather, it allows us to study phenomena in movement, historically, and relationally as they develop. All research studies presented here were designed following the principle that narrating is a dynamic relational activity; that people use narrating to interact with others (actually present or implied), their environments, and themselves, in diverse ways. In order to account for this life-like diversity in narrating, each study involved participants in multiple narrating activities, employing diverse narrative genres, created for different purposes and directed toward different audiences. These diverse designs involving New York City students, war survivors from Sarajevo, international students in Italy, and students and teachers from Massachusetts, allowed for multiple perspectives within the issues explored in each respective study. Since the issues that participants mention in their narratives are likely determined by the present or implied readers and listeners of the narrative (Bakhtin, 1986; Holquist, 1990), eliciting narratives from multiple stakeholders’ perspectives gives sound to voices that would otherwise remain silent had we included only one stakeholder’s stance. Allowing for complexity and examining how individuals use narrating in relation to multiple contexts is particularly important given the diversity of the environments our study participants navigate on a daily basis.
Sub Sessions
- Making meaning of children’s social interactions through dynamic narrating
- Participant Dr. Shannon Audley (Smith College) | Participant Dr. Karina Huang (Smith College)
- 24 minutes | 1:30 PM - 1:54 PM Part of: SYMP 240 - At the conjunction of the theory and method: A dynamic narrating approach
- Paper in a Symposium (Symp)
- Plotting activity in cross-cultural relations
- Participant Dr. Colette Daiute (Graduate Center, City University of New York) | Participant Dr. Alessio Surian (University of Padova) | Participant Dr. Christian Tarchi (Graduate Center, City University of New York)
- 24 minutes | 1:54 PM - 2:18 PM Part of: SYMP 240 - At the conjunction of the theory and method: A dynamic narrating approach
- Paper in a Symposium (Symp)
- Youth’s sense-making about fairness from the perspectives of agent vs. object of injustice
- Participant Dr. Svetlana Jović (The Graduate Center - City University of New York)
- 24 minutes | 2:18 PM - 2:42 PM Part of: SYMP 240 - At the conjunction of the theory and method: A dynamic narrating approach
- Paper in a Symposium (Symp)
- Help! In the transition to college
- Participant Dr. Philip Kreniske (Columbia University and The New York State Psychiatric Institute)
- 24 minutes | 2:42 PM - 3:06 PM Part of: SYMP 240 - At the conjunction of the theory and method: A dynamic narrating approach
- Paper in a Symposium (Symp)
- Prepositions as locators across war space and time
- Participant Luka Lucić (Pratt Institute)
- 24 minutes | 3:06 PM - 3:30 PM Part of: SYMP 240 - At the conjunction of the theory and method: A dynamic narrating approach
- Paper in a Symposium (Symp)