Mixed metaphors for reading and writing the qualitative thesis in adult education
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11476643 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Dorothy Lander (St. Francis Xavier University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2000 |
| Volume | 32 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 148-165 |
| Publication date | 2000-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Studies in the Education of Adults (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0266-0830 • E-ISSN: 1478-9833 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/02660830.2000.11661427 |
| OpenAlex | W267411240 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 28 |
This paper applies narrative inquiry to the organising metaphors for reading and writing a qualitative thesis in adult education. Three perspectives are featured: methodologists and theorists; graduate students writing adult education theses; and faculty advisors who read and respond to graduate students' theses. My autobiographical account of writing two adult education theses and reading many graduate students' theses shapes my narrative inquiry into the interplay of metaphors between reader and writer. Practice-based exemplars explicate the dominant narrative genre and journey metaphors for organising theses. The inquiry traces readers and writers in a responsive, dialogical relationship characterised by restorying each other's metaphors using in-kind and different metaphors. I propose different organising metaphors for reading and writing qualitative research in the postmodern era. I re-place the journey-narrative genre of ‘beginning to ending’ with cartographies and storying/re-storying ‘in the middle’. Cartographies re-metaphorise the writing and reading of adult education theses and in the process adult educator authors are re-metaphorised as situated, bodily works-in-process
Adult education · Art · Dialogical self · Linguistics · Literature · Narrative · Pedagogy · Postmodernism · Qualitative research · Reading (process · Situated · Social science · Sociology · Writing process · Adult and Continuing Education Topics · Computer Science · Hermeneutics and Narrative Identity · Psychology · Reflective Practices in Education
Fields of play
Writing Strategies
The Consuming Body
Metaphors We Live By
Women's ways of knowing
The Body in the Mind
Restorying Our Lives
Nomadic subjects
Social theory and the politics of identity
Consumption and Identity at Work
Fictions Of Feminist Ethnography
Life history and narrative
Fidelity as a criterion for practicing and evaluating narrative inquiry
All to play for? Adult education, leisure and consumer culture
Researching adult transformation as autobiography
What stories do I tell now? New times and new narratives for the adult educator
Naturalistic inquiry
The art of fieldwork
A thousand plateaus
Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association
Positioning
Stories of Experience and Narrative Inquiry
The Postmodern Condition
Critical discourse analysis
Representing the Divided Self
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0.12 |
| Citation span | 2001 - 2024 (24) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |