Narrative research?

Donna Phillips (philld2 who-is-at rpi.edu)
Mon, 08 Feb 1999 19:58:08 -0500

I'm a newcomer/outsider to both psychology in general
and to the specialties of situated cognition, activity
theory, cultural psychology. My home port in the
research community is in communication, rhetoric, and
literacy. The concepts and theories of your field look
like a place I need to go, but I'm too new at the
terrain to know quite where to look.

I've read some of the studies--Lave's Vai and Gola
apprentice tailors, Scribner's dairy workers, de la
Rocha's study of Weight Watcher participants--and note
that they often focus on quantitative/computational
activities. I'm in the early stages of researching the
literacy practices of Chinese MBA students working with
case studies of a primarily narrative sort. I was
hoping some of you who have dealt with narrative
practices might suggest resources that were most
helpful to you.

Thanks,
Donna Phillips
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute