Storytelling: Global Reflections on Narrative (At the Interface / Probing the Boundaries, 122)

This book is a collection of papers from an international inter-disciplinary conference focusing on storytelling and human life. The chapters in this volume provide unique accounts of how stories shape the narratives and discourses of people’s lives and work; and those of their families and broader social networks. From making sense of history; to documenting biographies and current pedagogical approaches; to exploring current and emerging spatial and media trends; this book explores the possibilities of narrative approaches as a theoretical scaffold across numerous disciplines and in diverse contexts. Central to all the chapters is the idea of stories being a creative and reflexive means to make sense of people’s past, current realities and future possibilities.

Contributors are Prue Bramwell-Davis, Brendon Briggs, Laurinda Brown, Rachel Chung, Elizabeth Cummings, Szymon Czerkawski, Denise Dantas, Joanna Davidson, Nina Dvorko, Sarah Eagle, Theresa Edlmann, Gavin Fairbairn, Keven Fletcher, Sarah Garvey, Phyllis Hastings, Tracy Ann Hayes, Welby Ings, Stephanie Jacobs, Dean Jobb, Caroline M. Kisiel, Maria-Dolores Lozano, Mădălina Moraru, Michael R. Ogden, Nancy Peled, Valerie Perry, Melissa Lee Price, Rasa Račiūnaitė-Paužuolienė, Irena Ragaišienė, Remko Smid, Paulette Stevens, Cheryl Svensson, Mary O’Brien Tyrrell, Shunichi Ueno, Leona Ungerer, Sarah White, Wai-ling Wong and Bridget Anthonia Makwemoisa Yakubu.

Tracy Ann Hayes, Ph.D. (2018) Lancaster University, Lecturer and transdisciplinary researcher at the University of Cumbria; published on research methods, and young people’s relationship with nature, including Kindness: caring for self, others and nature - who cares and why? (2017).
Theresa Edlmann, Ph.D. (2015) Rhodes University, is a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the University of South Africa and Research Fellow at Stellenbosch University. Her research focuses on historical memory and the legacies of apartheid and colonialism in South Africa.
Laurinda Brown is a Reader in Mathematics Teacher Education at the University of Bristol. She enjoys editing, having edited international mathematics education journals and being one of the three editors for this volume.