Biographical Methods and Professional Practice

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Pub. Date: 2004-03-01
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Table of Contents

Notes on contributors v
one Introduction 1(16)
Ursula Apitzsch, Joanna Bornat and Prue Chamberlayne
Part One: Putting the subject into policy and practice 17(74)
two Biographical methods and social policy in European perspective
19(20)
Prue Chamberlayne
three Balancing precarious work, entrepreneurship and a new gendered professionalism in migrant self-employment
39(18)
Ursula Apitzsch
four Considerations on the biographical embeddedness of ethnic entrepreneurship
57(16)
Maria Kontos
five Ethnic entrepreneurship as innovation
73(18)
Feiwel Kupferberg
Part Two: Subjectivity in context 91(56)
six The social subject in biographical interpretive methods: emotional, mute, creative, divided
93(8)
Andrew Cooper
seven A socially and historically contextualised psychoanalytic perspective: Holocaust survival and suffering
101(14)
Daniel Bar-On
eight Professional choices between private and state positions in Russia's transformation
115(16)
Victoria Semenova
nine Maintaining a sense of individual autonomy under conditions of constraint: a study of East German managers
131(16)
Ulrike Nagel
Part Three: Self-awareness in research and practice 147(56)
ten Biographical reflections on the problem of changing violent 149 men
David Gadd
eleven The biographical turn in health studies
165(16)
Wendy Rickard
twelve Ethical aspects of biographical interviewing and analysis
181(12)
Kaja Kazmierska
thirteen Ghost writers: using biographical methods across languages
193(10)
Bogusia Temple
Part Four: Recognising trajectories of disempowerment 203(60)
fourteen 'Bucking and kicking': race, gender and embodied resistance in healthcare
205(16)
Yasmin Gunaratnam
fifteen Biography as empowering practice: lessons from research
221(16)
Joanna Bornat and Jan Walmsley
sixteen 'It's in the way that you use it': biography as a tool in professional social work
237(14)
Riitta Kyllönen
seventeen Interpreting the needs of homeless men: interviewing in context
251(12)
Karin Schlücker
Part Five: Biographical resources in education and training 263(68)
eighteen In quest of teachers' professional identity: the life story as a methodological tool
265(20)
Marie-Françoise Chanfrault-Duchet
nineteen Narratives, community organisations and pedagogy
285(14)
Rosemary Du Plessis, Jane Higgins and Belinda Mortlock
twenty Doctors on an edge: a cultural psychology of learning and health
299(14)
Linden West
twenty-one Intercultural perspectives and professional practice in the university: what's new in Germany
313(18)
Lena Inowlocki, Maria Teresa Herrera Vivar and Felicia Herrschaft
Index 331

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