Donald E Polkinghorne
Biographic Data
| ID | 115848 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Donald E Polkinghorne |
| GIVEN NAMES | Donald E |
| FAMILY NAME | Polkinghorne |
| SIGNATURE | POLKINGHORNE D E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Southern California |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 897 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 15 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1982 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
The practice of narrative
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Validity Issues in Narrative Research
Attention to the judgments about the validity of research-generated knowledge claims is integral to all social science research. During the past several decades, knowledge development has been split into two communities: conventional researchers and reformist researchers. Narrative research is positioned within the reformist community. The two communities use different kinds of data and employ different analytic processes. In both communities, re…
Language and meaning
Qualitative research is inquiry aimed at describing and clarifying human experience as it appears in people's lives. Researchers using qualitative methods gather data that serve as evidence for their distilled descriptions. Qualitative data are gathered primarily in the form of spoken or written lan
Doing Research That Makes a Difference
This paper describes the "practitioner-as-researcher" model of research, an alternative methodology that is intended to bring about institutional change. We developed this approach through the Diversity Scorecard project in which we work with teams of practitioners to examine institutional data disaggregated by ethnicity in order to identify inequities in educational outcomes. The practitioners, themselves, conduct the research on their own campu…
The Social Construction of Validity
The Unconstructed Self
Postmodernism proposes that the notion of self is a cultural construction and lacks any substantive or real referent. Chandler (2000) and Shotter (2000) offer challenges to this postmodern destruction of the self. Chandler proposes that within the cultural variety of self notions there is a common theme whose characteristics are 'permanence within change' and 'sameness within becoming'. Shotter suggests that narrative structure opens up a concept…
The Projects of Life Reflected in Autobiographies of Old Age
The present investigation was based on the analysis of twenty respondents, ten men and ten women, all retired. The written texts were obtained from the archives of one of the authors who gathered autobiographies using a guided method of assigned topics of life. The main objective for this analysis was to find those central life goals and dominant activities around which the projects of life were formed. Sorting of life projects was done according…
Use of Biography in the Development of Applicable Knowledge
A narrative understanding of clients is needed to supplement traditionally developed research for making clinical judgments about which approaches should be used in working with older adults. Narrative biographical knowledge of clients integrates the historical events and happenings of their lives with the social and cultural contexts through which they attribute meaning to their distresses and symptoms. Applications based on narrative knowledge …
Narrative configuration in qualitative analysis
Narrative inquiry refers to a subset of qualitative research designs in which stories are used to describe human action. The term narrative has been employed by qualitative researchers with a variety of meanings. In the context of narrative inquiry, narrative refers to a discourse form in which events and happenings are configured into a temporal unity by means of a plot. Bruner (1985) designates two types of cognition: paradigmatic, which operat…
Research methodology in humanistic psychology
This paper describes the activities of those within APA that have been advocating a change in APA's methodological commitment. American psychology chose to model itself after the physical sciences. As part of this decision the discipline adopted as its own the research methodology that had been developed for the study of natural phenomena. The humanistic psychology movement proposes that psychology should abjure the natural science methodology an…
Redefining the science-practice relationship and professional training
Narrative and Self-Concept
When the self is thought of as a narrative or story, rather than a substance or thing, the temporal and dramatic dimension of human existence is emphasized. The operation of narrative "emplotment" (Ricoeur, 1983/1984) can configure the diverse events and actions of one's life into a meaningful whole. One's self-concept or self-identity is fashioned by adaptation of plots from one's cul-tural stock of stories and myths. Stories of personal identit…
Phenomenological Research Methods
Further extensions of methodological diversity for counseling psychology
What Makes Research Humanistic
Research is humanistic that addresses questions raised by considering people as agents who can act in a purposeful and meaningful manner. The logic of experimentation as well as the logic of structures can be used to clarify and extend our understanding of people as self-directing agents
Narrative configuration in qualitative analysis
Narrative inquiry refers to a subset of qualitative research designs in which stories are used to describe human action. The term narrative has been employed by qualitative researchers with a variety of meanings. In the context of narrative inquiry, narrative refers to a discourse form in which events and happenings are configured into a temporal unity by means of a plot. Bruner (1985) designates two types of cognition: paradigmatic, which operat…
Validity Issues in Narrative Research
Attention to the judgments about the validity of research-generated knowledge claims is integral to all social science research. During the past several decades, knowledge development has been split into two communities: conventional researchers and reformist researchers. Narrative research is positioned within the reformist community. The two communities use different kinds of data and employ different analytic processes. In both communities, re…
Redefining the science-practice relationship and professional training
Further extensions of methodological diversity for counseling psychology
What Makes Research Humanistic
Research is humanistic that addresses questions raised by considering people as agents who can act in a purposeful and meaningful manner. The logic of experimentation as well as the logic of structures can be used to clarify and extend our understanding of people as self-directing agents
Doing Research That Makes a Difference
This paper describes the "practitioner-as-researcher" model of research, an alternative methodology that is intended to bring about institutional change. We developed this approach through the Diversity Scorecard project in which we work with teams of practitioners to examine institutional data disaggregated by ethnicity in order to identify inequities in educational outcomes. The practitioners, themselves, conduct the research on their own campu…
The practice of narrative
Preview this article: The practice of narrative, Page 1 of 1 /docserver/preview/fulltext/ni.20.2.11pol-1.gif
The Unconstructed Self
Postmodernism proposes that the notion of self is a cultural construction and lacks any substantive or real referent. Chandler (2000) and Shotter (2000) offer challenges to this postmodern destruction of the self. Chandler proposes that within the cultural variety of self notions there is a common theme whose characteristics are 'permanence within change' and 'sameness within becoming'. Shotter suggests that narrative structure opens up a concept…
The Projects of Life Reflected in Autobiographies of Old Age
The present investigation was based on the analysis of twenty respondents, ten men and ten women, all retired. The written texts were obtained from the archives of one of the authors who gathered autobiographies using a guided method of assigned topics of life. The main objective for this analysis was to find those central life goals and dominant activities around which the projects of life were formed. Sorting of life projects was done according…
Use of Biography in the Development of Applicable Knowledge
A narrative understanding of clients is needed to supplement traditionally developed research for making clinical judgments about which approaches should be used in working with older adults. Narrative biographical knowledge of clients integrates the historical events and happenings of their lives with the social and cultural contexts through which they attribute meaning to their distresses and symptoms. Applications based on narrative knowledge …
What Makes Research Humanistic
Research is humanistic that addresses questions raised by considering people as agents who can act in a purposeful and meaningful manner. The logic of experimentation as well as the logic of structures can be used to clarify and extend our understanding of people as self-directing agents
Further extensions of methodological diversity for counseling psychology
Phenomenological Research Methods
Narrative and Self-Concept
When the self is thought of as a narrative or story, rather than a substance or thing, the temporal and dramatic dimension of human existence is emphasized. The operation of narrative "emplotment" (Ricoeur, 1983/1984) can configure the diverse events and actions of one's life into a meaningful whole. One's self-concept or self-identity is fashioned by adaptation of plots from one's cul-tural stock of stories and myths. Stories of personal identit…
Research methodology in humanistic psychology
This paper describes the activities of those within APA that have been advocating a change in APA's methodological commitment. American psychology chose to model itself after the physical sciences. As part of this decision the discipline adopted as its own the research methodology that had been developed for the study of natural phenomena. The humanistic psychology movement proposes that psychology should abjure the natural science methodology an…
Redefining the science-practice relationship and professional training
Narrative configuration in qualitative analysis
Narrative inquiry refers to a subset of qualitative research designs in which stories are used to describe human action. The term narrative has been employed by qualitative researchers with a variety of meanings. In the context of narrative inquiry, narrative refers to a discourse form in which events and happenings are configured into a temporal unity by means of a plot. Bruner (1985) designates two types of cognition: paradigmatic, which operat…
The Projects of Life Reflected in Autobiographies of Old Age
The present investigation was based on the analysis of twenty respondents, ten men and ten women, all retired. The written texts were obtained from the archives of one of the authors who gathered autobiographies using a guided method of assigned topics of life. The main objective for this analysis was to find those central life goals and dominant activities around which the projects of life were formed. Sorting of life projects was done according…
Use of Biography in the Development of Applicable Knowledge
A narrative understanding of clients is needed to supplement traditionally developed research for making clinical judgments about which approaches should be used in working with older adults. Narrative biographical knowledge of clients integrates the historical events and happenings of their lives with the social and cultural contexts through which they attribute meaning to their distresses and symptoms. Applications based on narrative knowledge …
The Unconstructed Self
Postmodernism proposes that the notion of self is a cultural construction and lacks any substantive or real referent. Chandler (2000) and Shotter (2000) offer challenges to this postmodern destruction of the self. Chandler proposes that within the cultural variety of self notions there is a common theme whose characteristics are 'permanence within change' and 'sameness within becoming'. Shotter suggests that narrative structure opens up a concept…
The Social Construction of Validity
Doing Research That Makes a Difference
This paper describes the "practitioner-as-researcher" model of research, an alternative methodology that is intended to bring about institutional change. We developed this approach through the Diversity Scorecard project in which we work with teams of practitioners to examine institutional data disaggregated by ethnicity in order to identify inequities in educational outcomes. The practitioners, themselves, conduct the research on their own campu…
Language and meaning
Qualitative research is inquiry aimed at describing and clarifying human experience as it appears in people's lives. Researchers using qualitative methods gather data that serve as evidence for their distilled descriptions. Qualitative data are gathered primarily in the form of spoken or written lan
Validity Issues in Narrative Research
Attention to the judgments about the validity of research-generated knowledge claims is integral to all social science research. During the past several decades, knowledge development has been split into two communities: conventional researchers and reformist researchers. Narrative research is positioned within the reformist community. The two communities use different kinds of data and employ different analytic processes. In both communities, re…
The practice of narrative
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