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Interpreting stories, interpreting lives: Narrative and action in moral development research
Author(s) -
Packer Martin J.
Publication year - 1991
Publication title -
new directions for child and adolescent development
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.628
H-Index - 59
eISSN - 1534-8687
pISSN - 1520-3247
DOI - 10.1002/cd.23219915406
Subject(s) - hermeneutics , narrative , action (physics) , psychology , narrative inquiry , epistemology , sociology , social psychology , linguistics , philosophy , physics , quantum mechanics
While a “hermeneutics of narrative” can show us how people understand their world in complex, socially available, organiled ways, and how as researchers we, too, actively construe as we try to understand other people, a “hermeneutics of action” is needed to overcome our addiction to the belief that knowing the world is our primary kind of engagement with it.