Location

MD203, Paul Cardinal Shen Medical Building, Fu Jen University

Start Date

29-5-2015 10:40 AM

End Date

29-5-2015 11:50 AM

Description

Narrative practice, emerged from Narrative Therapy in 90s, has been known in the field of Social Work, Psychological Counseling and community work for more than ten years. With the tradition of thought of Social Construction, it is going to explore how socio-cultural milieu shapes individual to understand of self and others and to learn, as well as develop new style of learning out of mainstream discourse. Narrative Practice embraces different kinds of conversation as 'externalizing conversation' (to facilitate individual to discover pathological discourse of learning) and 'remembering conversation' (to liaise individual with communities to re-identify herself/ himself to learn and contribute). Also, 'definitional ceremonies' in Narrative Practice encourages individual to develop dialogue s with people with diverse background. As a result, one is able to reconstruct her/ his identify to serve the community with love and to share w ith the vulnerable with sense of justice.

Narrative research and analysis is advocated in this paper. By listening to one's narration, we could discover how personal internal view moves the world, and how the world constructs personal identity in socio-historical context. In this process of interaction, a lot of episodes of story will be discovered. Various interpretations on one's identity will emerge and be re-constructed again and again. Thicker and thicker understanding on personal identity will be possible in the dialogue between the narrator and listener. The cultural and socio-historical context will be discovered in this process of interpretation.

Recommended Citation

Chen, K.-k. T. (2015, May). How narrative practice informs service learning with love and justice. Paper presented at the 5th Asia-Pacific Regional Conference on Service-Learning: Love Journey: Community Engagement through Service-Learning, Fu Jen Catholic University, Taiwan.

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May 29th, 10:40 AM May 29th, 11:50 AM

How narrative practice informs service learning with love and justice

MD203, Paul Cardinal Shen Medical Building, Fu Jen University

Narrative practice, emerged from Narrative Therapy in 90s, has been known in the field of Social Work, Psychological Counseling and community work for more than ten years. With the tradition of thought of Social Construction, it is going to explore how socio-cultural milieu shapes individual to understand of self and others and to learn, as well as develop new style of learning out of mainstream discourse. Narrative Practice embraces different kinds of conversation as 'externalizing conversation' (to facilitate individual to discover pathological discourse of learning) and 'remembering conversation' (to liaise individual with communities to re-identify herself/ himself to learn and contribute). Also, 'definitional ceremonies' in Narrative Practice encourages individual to develop dialogue s with people with diverse background. As a result, one is able to reconstruct her/ his identify to serve the community with love and to share w ith the vulnerable with sense of justice.

Narrative research and analysis is advocated in this paper. By listening to one's narration, we could discover how personal internal view moves the world, and how the world constructs personal identity in socio-historical context. In this process of interaction, a lot of episodes of story will be discovered. Various interpretations on one's identity will emerge and be re-constructed again and again. Thicker and thicker understanding on personal identity will be possible in the dialogue between the narrator and listener. The cultural and socio-historical context will be discovered in this process of interpretation.