Stories to connect with: The use of narrative methodology with disadvantaged children and young people in a community-based participatory research project
Stories to connect with: The use of narrative methodology with disadvantaged children and young people in a community-based participatory research project
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关联故事：在基于社区的参与性研究项目中对弱势儿童和青少年使用叙事方法
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2016
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C. Satchwell
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本文探讨了使用叙事方法收集儿童和年轻人的故事在一个为期30个月的艺术和人文研究理事会（AHRC）资助的项目在英国（2015-2017），题为“故事连接：弱势儿童和年轻人创造phygital社区文物分享他们的生活叙事的韧性和转型”（www.stories2connect.org）。作为主要研究者，我将描述一些挑战和工作的亮点，包括谈判工作在一个以社区为基础的参与性研究项目与儿童和青少年的范围（DIS-abilities）和学者从一系列学科。
此外，通过叙事学理论的应用，我确切地考虑了这些故事的年轻作者是如何与他们的观众联系的。该项目旨在将弱势儿童和年轻人的边缘化声音带入社区中心，通过故事鼓励联系和同情。我们试图挑战围绕非传统家庭的主导话语，同时也促进了年轻人讲述自己的故事的儿童文学中被忽视的维度。本文探讨了这种联系是如何发生的，并具体详细介绍了故事从社区边缘到中心的旅程。
儿童和年轻人都可以获得英国一家支持弱势儿童的慈善机构提供的服务。通过参与该项目，儿童不仅成为故事的提供者，而且成为故事的讲述者：他们的生活叙述将由年轻人自己决定，通过他们的故事的协作组合，并由著名的儿童作家提供便利。年轻人、作家和研究人员将一起重新创造、融合、虚构和重新呈现他们的故事，以他们满意的方式呈现真实而又成功的故事。该项目的后半部分涉及儿童与大学的数字设计师一起设计物理对象，这将是向公众传达他们故事的手段。例如，他们可能会创造一棵真人大小的树，上面有可以采摘的含有故事的苹果;一条龙，它会吐出故事;或者一条公园长椅，它会喃喃自语。我提出了一个叙事散文（短1996年）的话语结构的解释和阐述，试图说明和阐明这些故事的“作者”和“读者”之间的关系的复杂性。故事的旅程包括探索真理在哪里变成虚构，儿童在哪里成为叙述者和被叙述者，以及公众在哪里成为读者。在这些故事的讲述中，物理对象的中介作用是探索公众如何成为故事信息的接收者的进一步步骤。我讨论了来自社区边缘的多个故事的多个讲述者如何能够联合收割机为更中心位置的人们创造有意义的信息。从叙事学的框架，以社区为基础的参与式研究的应用程序提出了更大的问题，社区的不同部分之间的关系，研究者和参与者之间，以及作者和所有者之间，故事和叙事之间，讲述者和被告知之间。
This paper explores the use of narrative methodology to collect stories from children and young people in a 30-month Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC)-funded project in the UK (2015-2017), entitled ‘Stories to Connect With: disadvantaged children and young people creating phygital community artefacts to share their life-narratives of resilience and transformation’ (www.stories2connect.org). As Principal Investigator I will describe some of the challenges and highlights of the work to date, including negotiating working in a community-based participatory research project with children and young people with a range of (dis)abilities and academics from a range of disciplines.
Further, through the application of theory from narratology I consider exactly how the young authors of these stories are connecting with their audiences. The project aims to bring marginalised voices of disadvantaged children and young people into the centre of the community to encourage connection and empathy through stories. We seek to challenge dominant discourses around unconventional families, while also furthering the neglected dimension within children’s literature of young people telling their own stories. This paper asks how such connections can occur and specifically details the steps in the journey of the stories from the edges of the community into the centre.
The children and young people all access services provided by a UK charity that supports vulnerable children. Through their participation in the project the children become powerful as not only providers of stories, but tellers of them: the narration of their lives will be determined by the young people themselves through collaborative assemblages of their stories, facilitated by well-known children’s authors. Together the young people, authors and researchers will recreate, blend, fictionalize and re-present their stories in ways that they are happy with as authentic yet triumphant. The latter part of the project involves the children designing phygital objects with university-based digital designers, which will be the means of communicating their stories to the public. For example, they may create a life-sized tree with story-containing apples that can be picked; a dragon that breathes out stories; or a park bench that murmurs. I present an interpretation and elaboration of the discourse structure of narrative prose (Short 1996) in an attempt to illustrate and elucidate the complexities of the relationship between the ‘author’ and ‘reader’ of these stories. The stories’ journey includes exploring where truth becomes fiction, where child becomes both narrator and narratee, and where the public becomes the reader. The mediation of the phygital objects in the telling of these stories is a further step in exploring how the public becomes the receiver of the story’s message. I discuss how multiple tellers of multiple stories from the edges of the community can combine to create meaningful messages for people in a more central location. The application of a framework from narratology to community-based participatory research raises bigger questions about the relationships between different parts of the community and between researcher and participant, as well as between author and owner, between story and narrative, and between teller and told.