Narratives in Action: A Strategy for Research and Analysis: 6 (Counseling & Development Series)

Narrative discourse―in therapy, or with a friend―can construct or transform the narrator’s self. With his sophisticated theoretical and methodological approach, the author provides:

1);A plausible and systematic account of how narrative self-construction works.

2);A dialogic account of self-construction that focuses on the social, cultural, and relational contexts of storytelling.

3);A useful, concrete approach to analyzing narrative discourse―providing step-by-step guidance on how to uncover and document meaningful patterns in transcribed narrative data.

Stanton E.F. Wortham is Associate Professor and Chair of the Educational Leadership Division at the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education.