“Do not harm. Help. Develop”. Selected Contexts and Strategies of Professional Story Work Cover Image

„Nie szkodzić. Pomagać. Rozwijać”. Wybrane konteksty i strategie profesjonalnej pracy z opowieścią
“Do not harm. Help. Develop”. Selected Contexts and Strategies of Professional Story Work

Author(s): Urszula Tokarska
Subject(s): Education, Psychology, Theory of Literature
Published by: Uniwersytet Ignatianum w Krakowie
Keywords: narrative psychology; story work; fairy tales therapy;

Summary/Abstract: RESEARCH OBJECTIVE: The research objective is to point at selected conditions for optimize the professional work with narrative texts used in educative and raising up process. THE RESEARCH PROBLEM AND METHODS: The research problem is a disparity between current “fashion” for benefit fairy narratives in education process and actual use of integrated knowledge about human narrative functioning during this work. Holistic frames of knowledge about the possibilities of supporting narrative development during a life course have been compared with the available Polish language methodology of story¬ work. THE PROCESS OF ARGUMENTATION: I. Juxtaposition the frames of contemporary knowledge about narrative mode of conducting human experience during a life course. II. Pointing at the potential consequences of the lack of such an integrated knowledge during educative story¬ work process. III. Searching for optimize conditions for above processes during the interaction between a recipient and the narrative text. RESEARCH RESULTS: I. Meaningful gaps in professional aspects of story¬ work lowers potential effects or disadvantages the audience. II. Accurate conducting on all the stages of story¬ work optimizing educational goals achieving. III. Pointing the importance of the ongoing intersect of specific problem solving with the extended vision of the whole life¬ story development regularities, bringing better effects than the divided ones. CONCLUSSIONS, INNOVATIONS, AND RECOMMENDATIONS: Pointing the necessity of incorporating a story work on current educational issues into a broader pro¬ development narrative health promotion. Introduction into original story¬ work model. Recommendations for training story¬ ¬work skills of adults involved in educational process.

  • Issue Year: 17/2018
  • Issue No: 42
  • Page Range: 97-110
  • Page Count: 14
  • Language: Polish