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Current Academic Year 2012 - 2013
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NFQ level 8 Credit Rating
Pre-requisite None
Co-requisite None
Compatibles None
Incompatibles None
Description
This module enables students to explore how story and narrative function as ways of configuring, articulating and sharing experience. Through examining stories from a range of contexts and in various forms, students will aesthetically and critically engage with the experiences of people encountering health/social challenges. The module incorporates discussion seminars and workshops and work will be assessed by continuous assessment method

Learning Outcomes
1. Discuss how narrative psychological processes operate in configuring life experiences
2. Appreciate the various ways in which people’s stories and meanings are articulated through the lifespan and across cultures
3. Discuss the effects of sharing stories in relation to identity, truth, knowledge and power
4. Display enhanced sensitivity to the situations of people in health and social care contexts as expressed through their stories
5. Use a range of interpretative approaches when considering people’s stories of illness, disability, distress and recovery
6. Display increased awareness of possible constructions of his/her own story



Workload Full-time hours per semester
Type Hours Description
Lecture10Core themes of module
Group work20Facilitated workshops
Assignment6Presentation
Independent learning89No Description
Total Workload: 125

All module information is indicative and subject to change. For further information,students are advised to refer to the University's Marks and Standards and Programme Specific Regulations at: http://www.dcu.ie/registry/examinations/index.shtml

Indicative Content and Learning Activities
Module content.
Conceptions of story and narrative. Narrative psychology – narrative as means of configuration and sense making.Narrative disruption through illness/trauma.Ways of telling stories and conveying meaning – influences of culture, gender, age.Story sharing, dialogical meaning making and identity.Stories and truth, knowledge and power; silenced stories, fantastic tales and meta-narratives.Stories, orality and the limits of language – visual and performed stories.Stories of illness, recovery, pain, disability, distress, death, enduring, achieving strength and beauty.Configuring, constructing and performing personal story..

Assessment Breakdown
Continuous Assessment% Examination Weight%
Course Work Breakdown
TypeDescription% of totalAssessment Date
PresentationThe assessment involves students communuicating a story, relevant to health/social interests, to colleagues. Students will facilitate group analysis of this story and its prduction and articulate their own relationships and interactions with the story.100%n/a
Reassessment Requirement
Resit arrangements are explained by the following categories;
1 = A resit is available for all components of the module
2 = No resit is available for 100% continuous assessment module
3 = No resit is available for the continuous assessment component
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Indicative Reading List
  • Bruner, J.: 1985, Actual minds, possible worlds., Harvard University Press,, Cambridge.,
  • Crossley, M.: 2000, Introducing Narrative Psychology. Self, trauma and the construction of meaning, Open University Press., Buckingham:,
  • Frank, A.: 1995, The Wounded Storyteller: Body, Illness and Ethics., University of Chicago Press., Chicago:,
  • Langellier K.M, Peterson E: 2004, Storytelling in Daily Life: Performing Narrative, Also available electronically, Temple University Press,
  • Frank A: 2010, Letting Stories Breathe: A Socio-Narratology, Also available electronically, University Of Chicago Press,
  • Davis J: 2002, Stories of Change: Narrative and Social Movements, Also available electronically, State University of New York Press,
  • Andrews M: 2001, Lines of Narrative: Psychosocial Perspectives, Routledge,
  • 0: Additionally a range of narratives from a variety of media will be explored during the module,
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