1st Edition

Speaking Out Storytelling for Social Change

By Linde Zingaro Copyright 2009
206 Pages
by Routledge

206 Pages
by Routledge

206 Pages
by Routledge

Many professionals in health, education, and community service roles are caught in a particular bind of identity—they live in a complex social borderland of credibility and professional authority while experiencing or having experienced the same discrimination, violence or trauma that they are committed to conquering. For some, the disclosure of their own stories of marginalization has become a... Read more
Acknowledgments, CHAPTER 1. Introduction: Disclosure Consequences, CHAPTER 2. Ideology, Terminology, and Method, CHAPTER 3. Conversations in Which Silence Is Not Consent, CHAPTER 4. Vignettes: Professional Confessions, CHAPTER 5. Voicing and Silence: Speaking for Others by Speaking about Ourselves, CHAPTER 6. Preparation for Speaking Out: Polishing the Story, CHAPTER 7. Pedagogical Confessions: Narrating Empowerment for Knowledge Production, CHAPTER 8. Testimony: Performing the Polished Story, CHAPTER 9. Conclusions/Closing: The Portrait of a Practice, Notes, References, Index, About the Author

Biography

Linde Zingaro