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Telling stories and the practice of collaboration

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posted on 2023-06-08, 09:17 authored by Lucia Garcia-Lorenzo, Sevasti-Melissa Nolas, Gerard de Zeeuw
Purpose: Stories and the telling of stories constitute a major part of our daily life. How this happens is not clearly understood. Sometimes stories are seen either as a last area where the scientific mind has no access and no voice or as its next area of development. This paper is about the ways in which stories challenge the notions of knowledge that are common in the 'classical' scientific tradition. It also is about the function of stories in the collaborative, interpersonal and inter-organisational dynamics of the way knowledge is built up in daily life. Design: The paper explores changes in the notion of knowledge (and what is considered scientific method). Firstly, it identifies various genealogies in which previous limitations on the experiences to be included as knowledge were extended. Secondly, the paper will look at experiences that link to the telling of stories, and explore the way they challenge as well as link to previous notions and extensions of knowledge in collaborative contexts. Findings: A core characteristic of stories and their telling is an increase in people's awareness both of others as sources of intentional variation as well as of their cultural and human heritage. Value: The paper initiates a much-needed discussion of the nature of knowledge as it relates to story telling. It links the experiences elicited by story telling to a genealogy of knowledge that identifies the difficulties of including experiences other than observations (e.g. uncertainty, intentionality). To study stories one needs to search for constraints on how individuals link to other individuals. The paper proposes how one might study stories by considering how they contribute to an extension of existing concepts of knowledge. DOI: 10.1108/01443330810852864

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  • Published

Journal

International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy

ISSN

0144-333X

Publisher

Emerald

Issue

(1&2)

Volume

28

Page range

9-19

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  • Social Work and Social Care Publications

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  • Yes

Legacy Posted Date

2012-02-06

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