narratives of person

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narratives of person world individualism
relational processes

• Dian Marie Hosking
• www.relational-constructionism.org

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Narrative 1 this and that thinking

• the rational agent

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Narrative 1 this and that thinking

• Observation the empirical method

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Narrative 1 this and that thinking

• Language as a tool for representing the world
• -gt
• donkeys

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Hard self-other differentiation
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Narrative 2 relating constructs relational
realities

• Moves away from representation

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other possible constructions of person world

• New focus
• multiple local language games
• local rationalities

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New focus relational processes

• ongoing, language-based relating (re)constructs
• multiple, local-cultural, local-historical
• relational realities
• of self-other and relations
• so
• relating constructs S-O relations so
• could construct other relations

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Inquiry as a relational process

• methodology as tool result
• how we do things the tool, the becoming
  process - matters because we are (re)producing
  particular forms of life
• in different but hierarchical relation or
• in different but equal relation
• what kinds of reality do you want to contribute
  to (re)making?

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Engaged inquiry some possiblities

• participative - multi-voiced dialogues of equals
• open, emergent - minimal pre-structuring
• appreciative
• local use values and ethics
• more or less transformative

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