Accounts of Ruptures and Narrative Positioning in Qualitative Follow-Up Research

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dc.contributor.authorSiivonen, Päivi
dc.contributor.authorKorhonen, Maija
dc.contributor.organizationfi=kasvatustieteiden laitos|en=Department of Education|
dc.contributor.organization-code1.2.246.10.2458963.20.56860088444
dc.converis.publication-id458331833
dc.converis.urlhttps://research.utu.fi/converis/portal/Publication/458331833
dc.date.accessioned2026-01-21T14:00:36Z
dc.date.available2026-01-21T14:00:36Z
dc.description.abstract<p>This chapter applies and develops a small-story approach and narrative positioning analysis to examine employability as a temporal process of interpretation in adult graduates’ educational and working-life trajectories. The method of analysis applied and developed in this chapter represents a novel interactionally oriented and practice-based paradigm for theorising about the connections between narrative and identity. The chapter illustrates the narrative positioning analysis of follow-up interview data using one adult business graduate as a case example. The analysis focuses on one adult graduate’s temporarily evolving accounts of ruptures, such as dismissal, in her working-life trajectory. Moreover, the analysis examines the agency dilemma and how the graduate negotiates her agency in relation to employability over time, thus also navigating the constancy/change dilemma. The narrative positioning analysis of follow-up data makes visible the multi-voicedness of identity positionings in narrated accounts at two different timepoints (2019, 2020). Depending on the situation and audience (e.g., employers, colleagues, and students), different versions of the self are performatively created. This also reveals important narrative and psychological functions. The small-story approach and narrative positioning analysis provide methodological tools with which to analyse adult graduates’ employability as an evolving and multi-voiced process of identity construction, which manifests itself in relation to situated expectations and demands, as well as various audiences.<br></p>
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dc.identifier.eisbn978-3-031-68350-3
dc.identifier.isbn978-3-031-68349-7
dc.identifier.olddbid213335
dc.identifier.oldhandle10024/196353
dc.identifier.urihttps://www.utupub.fi/handle/11111/55235
dc.identifier.urlhttps://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-68350-3_3
dc.identifier.urnURN:NBN:fi-fe2025082791148
dc.language.isoen
dc.okm.affiliatedauthorSiivonen, Päivi
dc.okm.discipline516 Educational sciencesen_GB
dc.okm.discipline516 Kasvatustieteetfi_FI
dc.okm.internationalcopublicationnot an international co-publication
dc.okm.internationalityInternational publication
dc.okm.typeA3 Book
dc.publisherSpringer
dc.publisher.countrySwitzerlanden_GB
dc.publisher.countrySveitsifi_FI
dc.publisher.country-codeCH
dc.publisher.isbn978-81-322;978-3-540;978-3-642;978-3-662;978-3-7908;978-3-8274;978-3-8347;978-90-481;978-94-007;978-94-009;978-94-010;978-94-011;978-94-015;978-94-017;978-94-024;978-0-387;978-0-8176;978-1-4419;978-1-4612;978-1-4613;978-1-4614;978-1-4615;978-1-4684;978-1-4757;978-1-4899;978-1-4939;978-1-5041;978-3-319;978-1-4020;978-0-85729;978-1-4471;978-1-84628;978-1-84800;978-1-84882;978-1-84996;978-1-85233;978-3-211;978-3-7091;978-4-431;978-3-322;978-3-409;978-3-531;978-3-658;978-3-663;978-3-8100;978-981-287;978-981-10;978-981-13;978-3-030;978-981-32;978-981-15;978-981-16;978-981-329;978-981-334;978-981-336;978-3-031;978-981-19;
dc.relation.doi10.1007/978-3-031-68350-3_3
dc.source.identifierhttps://www.utupub.fi/handle/10024/196353
dc.titleAccounts of Ruptures and Narrative Positioning in Qualitative Follow-Up Research
dc.title.bookNarratives in Educational Research : Methodological Perspectives
dc.year.issued2024

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