Biographical methods and professional practice : an international perspective / [electronic resource]
Chamberlayne, Prue,editor.
Bornat, Joanna,editor.
Apitzsch, Ursula,editor.
The turn to biographical methods in social science is invigorating the relationship between policy and practice. This book shows how biographical methods can improve theoretical understanding of professional practice, as well as enrich the development of professionals, and promote more meaningful practitioner-service user relationships.
BIOGRAPHICAL METHODS AND PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE; Contents; Notes on contributors; 1. Introduction; 2. Biographical methods and social policy in European perspective; 3. Balancing precarious work, entrepreneurship and a new gendered professionalism in migrant self-employment; 4. Considerations on the biographical embeddedness of ethnic entrepreneurship; 5. Ethnic entrepreneurship asinnovation; 6. The social subject in biographical interpretive methods: emotional, mute, creative, divided; 7. A socially and historically contextualised psychoanalytic perspective: Holocaust survival and suffering
8. Professional choices between private and state positions in Russia's transformation9. Maintaining a sense of individual autonomy under conditions of constraint: a study of East German managers; 10. Biographical reflections on the problem of changing violent men; 11. The biographical turn in health studies; 12. Ethical aspects of biographical interviewing and analysis; 13. Ghost writers: using biographical methods across languages; 14. 'Bucking and kicking': race, gender and embodied resistance in healthcare; 15. Biography as empowering practice: lessons from research
16. 'It's in the way that you use it': biography as a tool in professional social work17. Interpreting the needs of homeless men: interviewing in context; 18. In quest of teachers' professional identity: the life story as a methodological tool; 19. Narratives, community organisations and pedagogy; 20. Doctors on an edge: a cultural psychology of learning and health; 21. Intercultural perspectives and professional practice in the university: what's new in Germany; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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The turn to biographical methods in social science is invigorating the relationship between policy and practice. This book shows how biographical methods can improve theoretical understanding of professional practice, as well as enrich the development of professionals, and promote more meaningful practitioner-service user relationships.
Social sciences