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Curating Stories in Teaching Family Therapy
Author(s) -
Neden Jeanette
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
australian and new zealand journal of family therapy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.297
H-Index - 19
eISSN - 1467-8438
pISSN - 0814-723X
DOI - 10.1375/anft.32.3.220
Subject(s) - pluralism (philosophy) , family therapy , publishing , context (archaeology) , project commissioning , sociology , interpretation (philosophy) , epistemology , pedagogy , psychology , history , literature , art , psychotherapist , philosophy , linguistics , archaeology
In this article I explore the use of Pearce and Pearce's (1998) notion of ‘curating stories’ and ‘transcendent story‐telling’ for teaching about models in family therapy. Taking a position of curator; the discussion invites students into inclusive and pluralist thinking about the many models in family therapy's collection. Two story‐making frameworks of Stratigraphy and Australian Aboriginal ‘Dreaming’ are curated in a sequential way allowing a thick description and lived story of pluralism to emerge. Creative use of metaphors invites a context for transforming knowledge and abilities towards pluralism. I outline how family therapy can be taught using these metaphors as a way of freeing students to see its history as both interpretation and lived experience.