an article by Keri Facer (University of Bristol Graduate School of Education, UK) published in Literacy Volume 53 Issue 1 (January 2019)
Abstract
This essay examines the role of educators in the tangled economic, social, environmental and technological crises of the present time. It argues that a central purpose of education in this period is to support students to imagine and make liveable futures on their own terms.
To do this, the paper proposes that the colonizing, optimizing and catastrophic stories that dominate accounts of the relationship between education and the future should be replaced by a recognition of students and worlds as co‐emerging.
It introduces resources from the fields of anticipation, temporality and decolonial studies that gesture towards a new educational practice.
It concludes by arguing that supporting students to make, tell and listen to stories has a critical role to play in enabling students to identify and articulate desires, hopes, fears and dreams for the future and to engage with the rich complexities of the present.
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Showing posts with label storytelling. Show all posts
Showing posts with label storytelling. Show all posts
Thursday, 28 March 2019
Sunday, 17 June 2018
Using Storytelling as a Job-Search Strategy
an article by Karl L. Smart and Jerry DiMaria (Central Michigan University, USA) published in Business and Professional Communication Quarterly Volume 81 Issue 2 (2018)
Abstract
This article demonstrates and reinforces the role that well-told stories play in the success of the job-search process. Building on narrative theory, impression management, and an increased use of behavioral-based questions in interviews, well-crafted stories about work and educational experiences demonstrate skills applicants possess and convey them to interviewers in memorable ways.
The article shows how to construct stories based on an applicant’s experiences and shaped to the needs of a potential employer.
Additionally, the article demonstrates how a job seeker can create a collection of personal stories that can be adapted to varying job interview situations.
Abstract
This article demonstrates and reinforces the role that well-told stories play in the success of the job-search process. Building on narrative theory, impression management, and an increased use of behavioral-based questions in interviews, well-crafted stories about work and educational experiences demonstrate skills applicants possess and convey them to interviewers in memorable ways.
The article shows how to construct stories based on an applicant’s experiences and shaped to the needs of a potential employer.
Additionally, the article demonstrates how a job seeker can create a collection of personal stories that can be adapted to varying job interview situations.
Monday, 20 July 2015
Coaching unemployed managers and professionals through the trauma of unemployment: Derailed or undaunted?
an article by David E Gray (University of Greenwich), Yiannis Gabriel (University of Bath) and Harshita Goregaokar (University of Surrey) published in Management Learning Volume 46 Number 3 (July 2015)
Abstract
The economic crisis of 2008/2009 has increased unemployment among managers, particularly older managers, a group under-researched empirically. This longitudinal study assesses the efficacy of executive coaching for a group of unemployed professionals who participated in an intensive coaching programme aimed at reintegrating them into the economy.
Results suggest that the majority were positive about coaching, a process that helped them to reflect on and learn from their new circumstances. Findings also contradict other studies, indicating cautious, cool and even hostile responses to coaching.
The study highlights the mental fragility of previously successful, now unemployed, managers.
From a policy perspective, interventions should start earlier (before employees leave an organisation) and finish later.
From a social science perspective, executive coaching represents a modest but sometimes effective initiative to help unemployed professionals to re-write their life stories to make sense of their experiences.
Abstract
The economic crisis of 2008/2009 has increased unemployment among managers, particularly older managers, a group under-researched empirically. This longitudinal study assesses the efficacy of executive coaching for a group of unemployed professionals who participated in an intensive coaching programme aimed at reintegrating them into the economy.
Results suggest that the majority were positive about coaching, a process that helped them to reflect on and learn from their new circumstances. Findings also contradict other studies, indicating cautious, cool and even hostile responses to coaching.
The study highlights the mental fragility of previously successful, now unemployed, managers.
From a policy perspective, interventions should start earlier (before employees leave an organisation) and finish later.
From a social science perspective, executive coaching represents a modest but sometimes effective initiative to help unemployed professionals to re-write their life stories to make sense of their experiences.
Friday, 3 July 2015
Cave wall to internet, storytelling, the ancient learning art
an article by Gerry Beamish and Jonathan Beamish (Beamish Associates International, Newtownbutler, UK) published in Industrial and Commercial Training Volume 47 Issue 4 (2015)
Abstract
Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to show the value of storytelling in developing organisational culture and values, facilitating change and accelerating learning.
Design/methodology/approach
The paper looks at why storytelling is important and how it has survived and adapted to changing technologies.
Findings
Storytelling is crucial in bridging the knowledge/action gap that is at the centre of most management, change and learning problems. The fact that oral storytelling has survived so many changes in technology is testament to its value but more recent research has underlined the scientific reasons for its success.
Originality/value
A story is the only way to activate parts in the brain so that a listener turns the story into their own ideas and experience. In terms of influencing there is nothing more powerful than people thinking that the idea is their own. When people believe the idea is their own they put all their energies behind implementing it thus reinforcing culture/values and facilitating learning and change.
Abstract
Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to show the value of storytelling in developing organisational culture and values, facilitating change and accelerating learning.
Design/methodology/approach
The paper looks at why storytelling is important and how it has survived and adapted to changing technologies.
Findings
Storytelling is crucial in bridging the knowledge/action gap that is at the centre of most management, change and learning problems. The fact that oral storytelling has survived so many changes in technology is testament to its value but more recent research has underlined the scientific reasons for its success.
Originality/value
A story is the only way to activate parts in the brain so that a listener turns the story into their own ideas and experience. In terms of influencing there is nothing more powerful than people thinking that the idea is their own. When people believe the idea is their own they put all their energies behind implementing it thus reinforcing culture/values and facilitating learning and change.
Friday, 15 March 2013
Job loss and its aftermath among managers and professionals: wounded, fragmented and flexible
an article by Yiannis Gabriel (University of Bath, UK) and David E Gray and Harshita Goregaokar (University of Surrey, UK) published in Work Employment Society Volume 27 Number 1 (February 2013)
Abstract
Based on longitudinal fieldwork with unemployed managers and professionals in their 50s, the article examines the meaning of job loss to these people and charts their subsequent efforts to restore their lives.
The article identifies core similarities in their experiences and discerns different narrative strategies through which they have tried to make sense of their dismissal and sustain their selfhood.
For all, job loss was a considerable trauma leading to a fragmentation of identity; this was compounded by subsequent rejection and perceived discrimination. Few were able to resume their earlier careers; the majority had to adjust their expectations downwards and opt for either virtual deskilling in less well paid and less demanding jobs or for an assortment of part-time, casual and voluntary work.
Best ‘adapted’ (and least fragmented) were those who were prepared to forsake hopes of a return to high-powered jobs and display flexibility, resourcefulness and opportunism in adapting to their reduced circumstances.
Abstract
Based on longitudinal fieldwork with unemployed managers and professionals in their 50s, the article examines the meaning of job loss to these people and charts their subsequent efforts to restore their lives.
The article identifies core similarities in their experiences and discerns different narrative strategies through which they have tried to make sense of their dismissal and sustain their selfhood.
For all, job loss was a considerable trauma leading to a fragmentation of identity; this was compounded by subsequent rejection and perceived discrimination. Few were able to resume their earlier careers; the majority had to adjust their expectations downwards and opt for either virtual deskilling in less well paid and less demanding jobs or for an assortment of part-time, casual and voluntary work.
Best ‘adapted’ (and least fragmented) were those who were prepared to forsake hopes of a return to high-powered jobs and display flexibility, resourcefulness and opportunism in adapting to their reduced circumstances.
Wednesday, 29 February 2012
Sensemaking, storytelling and the legitimization of elite business careers
an article by Mairi Maclean (University of Exeter Business School), Charles Harvey (Newcastle University) and Robert Chia (Strathclyde Business School) published in Human Relations Volume 66 Number 1 (January 2012)
Abstract
This article examines elite business careers through the dual lens of sensemaking and storytelling as recounted in life-history interviews with business leaders. It explores how they make sense of, narrativise and legitimate their experiences of building their careers within and beyond large organizations. The research contribution is twofold.
First, we explicate the sensemaking processes embedded within the multifarious stories recorded in life-history interviews, identified as locating, meaning-making and becoming.
Second, we contribute to the literature on legitimacy by examining how business leaders use their storytelling as a vehicle for self-legitimization, (re)framing their accounts of their own success and justifying their position to themselves and others.
In a world where reputations are hard won but easily lost, business leaders must nurture a life-history narrative which is socially desirable if their careers are to remain on track. This may serve them well through the creative evolution of their organisational journeys.
Abstract
This article examines elite business careers through the dual lens of sensemaking and storytelling as recounted in life-history interviews with business leaders. It explores how they make sense of, narrativise and legitimate their experiences of building their careers within and beyond large organizations. The research contribution is twofold.
First, we explicate the sensemaking processes embedded within the multifarious stories recorded in life-history interviews, identified as locating, meaning-making and becoming.
Second, we contribute to the literature on legitimacy by examining how business leaders use their storytelling as a vehicle for self-legitimization, (re)framing their accounts of their own success and justifying their position to themselves and others.
In a world where reputations are hard won but easily lost, business leaders must nurture a life-history narrative which is socially desirable if their careers are to remain on track. This may serve them well through the creative evolution of their organisational journeys.
Tuesday, 28 February 2012
Bankers in the dock: Moral storytelling in action
an article by Andrea Whittle (Cardiff Business School) and Frank Mueller (University of St Andrews) published in Human Relations Volume 66 Number 1 (January 2012)
Abstract
This article draws on insights from a variety of fields, including discursive psychology, ethnomethodology, dramatism, rhetoric, ante-narrative analysis and conversation analysis, to examine the discursive devices employed in the storytelling surrounding the recent financial crisis. Discursive devices refer to the linguistic styles, phrases, tropes and figures of speech that, we propose, are central to the development of a compelling story.
We focus our analysis on the moral stories constructed during a public hearing involving senior banking executives in the UK.
The analysis suggests that two competing storylines were used by the bankers and their questioners to emplot the events preceding the financial crisis. We propose that a discursive devices approach contributes to the understanding of storytelling by highlighting the power of micro-linguistic tools in laying out the moral landscape of the story. We argue that the stories surrounding the financial crisis are important because they shaped how the crisis was made sense of and acted upon.
Abstract
This article draws on insights from a variety of fields, including discursive psychology, ethnomethodology, dramatism, rhetoric, ante-narrative analysis and conversation analysis, to examine the discursive devices employed in the storytelling surrounding the recent financial crisis. Discursive devices refer to the linguistic styles, phrases, tropes and figures of speech that, we propose, are central to the development of a compelling story.
We focus our analysis on the moral stories constructed during a public hearing involving senior banking executives in the UK.
The analysis suggests that two competing storylines were used by the bankers and their questioners to emplot the events preceding the financial crisis. We propose that a discursive devices approach contributes to the understanding of storytelling by highlighting the power of micro-linguistic tools in laying out the moral landscape of the story. We argue that the stories surrounding the financial crisis are important because they shaped how the crisis was made sense of and acted upon.
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