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My review of the past thirty years of narrative scholarship returns to the work of Harvey Sacks and Erving Goffman, situated in Dell Hymes' ethnography of communication, to examine where their interactive model for understanding narrative has taken us. Although in some disciplines, narrative research is used as empirical evidence of how people interpret their experiences, Sacks' work points more to the ways that personal narrative destabilizes the relationship between narrative and experience. Current work focuses on narrative at its limits, including the study of fragmented, rather than coherent, selves; multiply voiced, rather than monologic, points of view; and compromised, rather than easily empathetic, relations of understanding. This work builds on, rather than departs from, research on narrative thirty years ago. In this essay, I suggest a connection between early research on entitlement and contemporary research on the ethics of narrative, and I focus in particular on the problem of empathy.

Relates personal experiences as a white, South African female graduate student in the US, to examine differences in racial discourse, especially perceptions of white identity. Being white was a significant fact of life while growing up in South Africa during apartheid when whites were a powerful minority. The whiteness that shapes the identity of someone of Afrikaans heritage is contrasted with how US students experience their whiteness. Although Americans appear more oblivious to racialization, it is maintained that their whiteness operates as an invisible norm, based on assumptions of their right to control. In this cultural context, the Other is psychologically more distant than in places where whiteness is more threatened. The impact of early colonial framing on white identity in South Africa is examined, along with the bifurcated nature of the identity of white South Africans who never called themselves Africans, contradictions of white South African socialization, & lessons being learned about ubuntu, the South African concept of personhood, during postapartheid discussions of reconciliation. 12 References. J. Lindroth

A brief history of American corrections -- Philosophies of corrections -- Law of corrections -- Incarceration -- Probation and parole -- Community corrections -- Correctional facility life -- Juvenile corrections -- Correctional facility workers -- Rehabilitation programs.

Abstract
The present study aimed to explore the personal narrative skills
of Urdu speaking preschoolers, aged between 4 and 5 years. The study also aimed
to investigate the gender differences in narrative skills, and relationship and
the predictive association between macro- and microstructure skills. A total of
80 preschoolers were recruited using two-stage sampling (convenience and
purposive). After screening the participants for intellectual functioning, three
personal narratives were collected from each participant. The results revealed
non-significant differences on the basis of age and gender. A significant
correlation was found between the macro- and microstructure skills in children.
NDW (number of different words), TNW (total number of words), and MLU (mean
length of utterance) were revealed as significant predictors of macrostructural
competencies in children. This was the first research that highlighted the
narrative skills of Urdu speaking preschoolers. Hence, the patterns identified
might help in extending the theory and research in this field.

1. Curriculum change processes and historical periods -- 2. The context of cultural inventions : learning and curriculum -- 3. Times of educational change : towards an understanding of patterns of historical and cultural refraction -- 4. Curriculum as narration : tales from the children of the colonised / with Ruth Deakin Crick -- 5. The rise of the life narrative -- 6. Exploring the teacher's professional knowledge : constructing identity and community / with Arda L. Cole -- 7. Listening to professional life stories : some cross-professional perspectives -- 8. All the lonely people : the struggle for private meaning and public purpose in education -- 9. The educational researcher as public intellectual -- 10. Knowledge, personal narrative and the social future.