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Composing Lives Alongside: Narrative Meaning Making and Life Making in Relation

Composing Lives Alongside: Narrative Meaning Making and Life Making in Relation
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Author(s): Derek A. Hutchinson (University of Kansas, USA)and M. Shaun Murphy (University of Saskatchewan, Canada)
Copyright: 2021
Volume: 6
Issue: 2
Pages: 14
Source title: International Journal of Bias, Identity and Diversities in Education (IJBIDE)
DOI: 10.4018/IJBIDE.2021070101

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Abstract

Drawing on a broader narrative inquiry into the curriculum making of participants who compose identities dissonant with dominant stories of gender and sexuality, this article explores the shaping influence of the social (relationships, communities, and contexts) in one participant's life story around sexuality from a curricular perspective. The term curriculum making represents an ongoing process through which individuals make sense and meaning of experience, position curriculum broadly as a course of life, and shift notions of curriculum and curriculum making beyond the bounds of school. Individuals engage in identity making as they make sense of themselves in relation to their curriculum making, narratively understood as the composition of stories to live by. This inquiry highlights the ways that life stories are composed alongside, connected to, and shaped by other people and draws the attention of educators to the complex lives unfolding in schools.

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