This thought-provoking research anthology adopts a postmodern stance and fills in a gap of knowledge for the education of professional development in teacher education, health sciences and the arts. Allowing subjectivity and multiple voices, the authors add to the intimate and negotiated knowledge of being and becoming – indigenous, architect, mother, teacher, health researcher, and supervisor. In fifteen chapters, the authors share knowledge of pain and reward in critical events in the realm of professional identity formation. The book provides a selection of personal and far-reaching stories and adds to the reflexivity of memories of critical events.
Mette Bøe Lyngstad is Professor in Drama and Applied Theatre at Western Norway University of Applied Sciences. She is research leader of the research group Neglected Narratives that initiated this research anthology. She has written several research articles about narrative work with marginalised groups.
Tiri Bergesen Schei is Professor of Music Education and Head of the research program “Arts, Creativity and Cultural Practices” at Western Norway University of Applied Sciences. Her research targets the functions of arts-based approaches in education and topics related to performative and artistic activities.
Elin Eriksen Ødegaard is Professor of Educational Science and Director of Kindergarten Knowledge Center at Western Norway University of Applied Sciences. She has published many books, articles and films about children's exploration, narrative meaning-making and professional development.
Foreword: Narrative Inquiry: Storying Who We Are
Acknowledgements
List of Figures
Notes on Contributors
1 Beginning with Experience: Introduction
Elin Eriksen Ødegaard, Tiri Bergesen Schei and Mette Bøe Lyngstad
2 Negotiating the Cultural Script of Mothering: Entangling Self-Explorative Narrative Inquiry into a Professional Identity
Elin Eriksen Ødegaard
3 On the Traveling and Turns of Being and Becoming a Narrative Inquirer
Bodil H. Blix
4 Beyond Personal and Political Boundaries: Being and Becoming a Cross-Cultural Researcher and Educator
Åsta Birkeland
5 Am I Sámi Enough? Narratives as a Means of Exploring a Sámi Pedagogy for Kindergarten
Carola Kleemann
6 The Inherent Power of Teachers: An Autobiographical Narrative Inquiry
Tiri Bergesen Schei
7 A Professional Identity Based on an International Career as Engineer: A Childhood Critical Event Impacting Every Fight for Acceptance
Anna-Lena Østern
8 A Tender Narrative on Intra-Active Identity Shaping: A Potty Enters a Kindergarten
Alicja R. Sadownik
9 She’s the Lion King!
Sidsel Boldermo
10 A Memory of Experiencing Milk in Kindergarten
Geir Aaserud, Tona Gulpinar and Tove Lafton
11 At the Intersection of Pastoral and Intellectual Support: A Journey of Autoethnographic Narratives on Supervision
Rikke Gürgens Gjærum and Nanna Kathrine Edvardsen
12 It Also Applies to You
Vibeke Solbue
13 The Minotaur Myth, Mimesis and Me
Mimesis Heidi Dahlsveen
14 Q for Quarantine
Rikke Gürgens Gjærum
15 Using Narratives to Understand Professional Identities
Mette Bøe Lyngstad
This book will be of interest to researcher in the field of narrative inquiry and sholars in higher education within the professions. Additionally, it is suitable for master students and PhD candidates, and for professionals in Education and Health.