Storying is socially and politically non-neutral: it privileges some storylines and silences others¶

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Subclaims¶

q1 i? Storying rapidly becomes a form of social and political prioritizing, a particular way of telling stories which privileges some storylines and silences others, displacing unwanted social and political realities. → Goodson 1994

Evidence¶

Goodson 1994¶

Goodson, I. F. (1995). The story so far: Personal knowledge and the political. International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, 8(1), 89–98. doi:10.1080/0951839950080109 (the earlier 1994 version, ERIC ED376160, is the one read here)

q1 · i? · theoretical · r2

Interpretive argument drawing on the paper's media analysis, including the New York Times observation that the savings and loan scandal shifted in foggy limbo rather than forming a storyline. The article offers this as reasoned interpretation, not tested data.

"Storying, therefore, rapidly becomes a form of social and political prioritizing, a particular way of telling stories which in its way privileges some storylines and silences others."

Discussion¶

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