Personal knowledge genres sit within the cultural logic of postmodernity, where specific empowerment can accompany overall social control¶

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Description¶

The article locates narrative and storying genres within emergent cultural patterns of contemporary societies and economies. It argues that an increasingly aggrandizing centre or state sponsors voices at the periphery while attacking medium and secondary associations such as schools, universities and libraries, so specific empowerment can go hand in hand with overall social control. Drawing on Denzin, the paper reports that the cultural logics of late capitalism valorize the life story because they keep the myth of the autonomous, free individual alive.

Design Implications¶

Context¶

Requirements¶

• Analysis of personal knowledge genres must attend to the overall social matrix, including economic restructuring allied to cultural redefinition.

Constraints¶

• The framework is an interpretive, theoretical account of contemporary cultural patterns rather than an empirically tested model.

Target Learners¶

• educational researchers and teacher educators using narrative inquiry

Target Learning Objectives¶

• critical understanding of the social and political context of narrative inquiry in educational research

Claims¶

• Storying Privileges Some Storylines Silences Others [+W]

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Key Sources¶

• Goodson, Ivor F. (1994). 'The Story So Far': Personal Knowledge and the Political. https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED376160. doi:10.1080/0951839950080109