Telling Modernization: Three Voices. Life History, Gender and the Discourse of Modernization. Roskilde University Life History Project Paper.

Autor/in	Anderson, Linda
Institution	Roskilde Univ. Center (Denmark).
Titel	Telling Modernization: Three Voices. Life History, Gender and the Discourse of Modernization. Roskilde University Life History Project Paper.
Quelle	(2000), (33 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
ISSN	1395-6833
ISBN	87-7349-485-2
Schlagwörter	Administrator Attitudes; Bias; Biographies; Comparative Analysis; Cultural Context; Definitions; Discourse Analysis; Discourse Communities; Educational Anthropology; Ethnography; Females; Foreign Countries; Human Services; Imagination; Interaction; Life Events; Metaphors; Modernization; Organizational Change; Personal Narratives; Research Methodology; Researchers; School Based Management; Sex Differences; Social Science Research; Social Theories; Story Telling; Theory Practice Relationship; Transformative Learning; Womens Education; World Views; Denmark + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Biography; Biografie; Biographie; Begriffsbestimmung; Diskursanalyse; Pädagogische Anthropologie; Ethnografie; Weibliches Geschlecht; Ausland; Humanitäre Hilfe; Interaktion; Modernisierung; Organisationswandel; Erlebniserzählung; Research method; Forschungsmethode; Researcher; Forscher; Sex difference; Geschlechtsunterschied; Social scientific research; Sozialwissenschaftliche Forschung; Gesellschaftstheorie; Theorie-Praxis-Beziehung; Pädagogische Transformation; 'Women''s education'; Frauenbildung; World view; Weltanschauung; Dänemark
Abstract	The relationship between life history, gender, and the discourse of modernization was examined from the perspective of a researcher with extensive experience performing evaluations about modernization within human services in Denmark. Three stories about site-based management in two human service institutionsa youth center and a boarding school for autistic childrenwere presented to illuminate fragments of the complex condition that modernization represents. One story, which was told by a female superintendent, reflects feelings of skepticism and professional pride and discusses modernization in terms of development. A second story, which was told by a male superintendent, stresses the challenges and criticism encountered during modernization. In analyzing the stories, the author explored the following themes: (1) the discourse of modernization; (2) pre-existing or interpretive narratives; (3) the notion of the dialectical, liberated, and dispersed subject and the various theoretical forms in which life histories emerge; (4) the concepts of subject and surface and their relationship to the discourse of life history and modernization; (5) fluent and fixed icons of life history; (6) lost virginity and floating space as images of modernization; and (7) rituals of passage, storytelling, imagination, and the researcher's voice. (Fourteen endnotes and 27 references are included.) (MN)
Anmerkungen	Roskilde University, P10, Postboks 260, DK-4000 Roskilde, Denmark (free).
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC