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Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Organization of the Book -- Notes on Contributors -- Narrative, Discourse, and Biography: An Introductory Story -- I. Discourses we live within: Frameworks that structure -- 1. Truth and Narrative: How and Why Stories Matter -- 2. From Experience to Language in Narrative Practices in Therapeutic Education in France -- 3. Narratives of Fundamentalism, Negative Capability and the Democratic Imperative -- 4. Understandings of the Natural World from a Generational Perspective -- II. Discourses we work within: Of the workplace

5. Opposing Cultures: Science and Humanities Teaching in Danish Schools -- 6. Shaping 'the Good Teacher' in Danish and Kenyan Teacher Education -- 7. Irish Adult Educators Find Fulfilment amid Poor Employment Conditions -- 8. Nurture Groups: Perspectives from Teaching Assistants Who Lead Them in Britain -- III. Discourses we work through: Challenges to overcome -- 9. Punishment Discourses in Everyday Life -- 10. Irish Students Turning First-Year Transition Obstacles into Successful Progression -- 11. Care Leavers in Italy: From 'Vulnerable' Children to 'Autonomous' Adults?

12. What Game Are We Playing? Narrative Work that Supports Gamblers -- IV. Discourses we work around: Managing constraining circumstances -- 13. A Danish Prisoner Narrative: The Tension from a Multifaceted Identity During (Re-)Entry to Society -- 14. Inclusion and Exclusion in Colombian Education, Captured Through Life Stories -- 15. Navigating Grades and Learning in the Swedish Upper Secondary School Where Neoliberal Values Prevail -- 16. Adult Education as a Means to Enable Polish Citizens to Question Media Coverage of Political Messages

V. Discourses that explore or reveal diversity: Facing choice and change -- 17. Examining a Kazakh Student's Biographical Narrative and the Discourses She Lives By -- 18. The Needs of Low-Literate Migrants When Learning the English Language -- 19. Uncovering Habitus in Life Stories of Muslim Converts -- 20. Participatory Approaches in Critical Migration Research: The Example of an Austrian Documentary Film -- VI. Discourses to support diversity: Projects that empower -- 21. Decolonizing and Indigenizing Discourses in a Canadian Context

22. Embedding Feminist Pedagogies of Care in Research to Better Support San Youth in South Africa -- 23. From Defender to Offender: British Female Ex-Military Re-Joining Civilian Society -- 24. UK Senior Citizens Learn Filmmaking as a Creative Pathway to Reflection and Fulfilment -- VII. Discourses through a Self-reflexive lens: Thoughts from researchers -- 25. Diversifying Discourses of Progression to UK Higher Education Through Narrative Approaches -- 26. Using Journaling and Autoethnography to Create Counter-Narratives of School Exclusion in Britain

What are the influences that govern how people view their worlds? What are the embedded values and practices that underpin the ways people think and act?Discourses We Live By approaches these questions through narrative research, in a process that uses words, images, activities or artefacts to ask people - either individually or collectively within social groupings - to examine, discuss, portray or otherwise make public their place in the world, their sense of belonging to (and identity within) the physical and cultural space they inhabit.

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