Constructing narratives of continuity and change a transdisciplinary approach to researching lives / [electronic resource] : edited by Hazel Reid and Linden West. - London ; New York : Routledge, 2015. - 1 online resource (xi, 185 p.) : ill. - Routledge research in education .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Narratives of change and continuity : their transdisciplinary and subversive potential / Linden West and Hazel Reid -- 2. Auto/biography : a relational journey / Laura Formenti -- 3. 'Moments of being' and the search for meaning : epistemological and methodological challenges for the autoethnographic researcher / Wilma Fraser -- 4. 'A very elementary transformation of one's existence' : narrating moments of political change / Molly Andrews -- 5. Learning democracy and fundamentalism : narratives of change, recognition and disrespect / Linden West -- 6. Whose story? Whose memory? Multiple readings of oral history life accounts from the socialist era / Martin Hajek -- 7. Identity formation and re-formation within Christian fundamentalism : journeys of faith - interrupted / Josie McSkimming -- 8. Stories of resistance and resilience : journeys to engagement with the UK global justice movement / James Trewby -- 9. Family beliefs and practices around academic ability and social mobility : narratives of contradiction, continuity and resistance / Laura Mazzoli Smith -- 10. How do career guidance practitioners talk about their class, gender and racialised identities? / Janice Smith -- 11. What is career about if not biography? Examining the 'shift' to constructivist and interdisciplinary approaches in career counselling / Hazel Reid -- 12. Poetry written from the words of people given a diagnosis of dementia : a narrative analysis / Maria Castro and Kitty Clark-McGhee -- 13. 'Those letters keep me going' : epistolary spaces and resilience-building processes in US soldiers to sweetheart war correspondence, 1942 to 1945 / Anne Byrne and Tanja Kovacic.

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Autobiography--Authorship.
Discourse analysis, Narrative.
Education--Biographical methods.