Speaking out : storytelling for social change / Linde Zingaro.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Zingaro, Linde.

Series:

International Institute for Qualitative Methodology series.

International Institute for Qualitative Methodology Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Storytelling.

Social change.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (207 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Walnut Creek, Calif. : Left Coast, c2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Many professionals in health, education, and community service roles are caught in a particular bind of identity-they live in a complex social borderland of credibility and professional authority while experiencing or having experienced the same discrimination, violence or trauma that they are committed to conquering. For some, the disclosure of their own stories of marginalization has become a tool for advocacy, for telling a larger truth; for others, self-disclosure is a more personal action, intended to assist isolated others in developing trust and connection. Linde Zingaro, a lifelon

Contents:

Contents; Acknowledgments; CHAPTER 1 Introduction: Disclosure Consequences; CHAPTER 2 Ideology, Terminology, and Method; CHAPTER 3 Conversations in Which Silence Is Not Consent; CHAPTER 4 Vignettes: Professional Confessions; CHAPTER 5 Voicing and Silence: Speaking for Others by Speaking about Ourselves; CHAPTER 6 Preparation for Speaking Out: Polishing the Story; CHAPTER 7 Pedagogical Confessions: Narrating Empowerment for Knowledge Production; CHAPTER 8 Testimony: Performing the Polished Story; CHAPTER 9 Conclusions/Closing: The Portrait of a Practice; Notes; References; Index

About The Author

Notes:

First published 2009 by Left Coast Press.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

1-315-41993-9

1-315-41992-0

1-59874-739-8

9781315419930

OCLC:

647914839