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narratives of person & world: individualism & relational processes Dian Marie Hosking www.relational-constructionism.org Slide 2 Narrative 1: this and that thinking the rational agent Slide 3 Slide 4 Narrative 1: this and that thinking Observation & the empirical method Slide 5 Slide 6 Narrative 1: this and that thinking Language as a tool for representing the world -> donkeys Slide 7 Slide 8 Hard self-other differentiation Slide 9 Slide 10 Narrative 2: relating constructs relational realities Moves away from representation Slide 11 Slide 12 other possible constructions of person & world New focus: multiple local language games & local rationalities Slide 13 Slide 14 New focus: relational processes ongoing, language-based relating (re)constructs: multiple, local-cultural, local-historical relational realities of self-other and relations & so: relating constructs S-O relations & so could construct other relations Slide 15 Inquiry as a relational process methodology as tool & result how we do things the tool, the becoming process - matters because we are (re)producing particular forms of life in different but hierarchical relation or in different but equal relation what kinds of reality do you want to contribute to (re)making? Slide 16 Engaged inquiry: some possiblities participative - multi-voiced dialogues of equals open, emergent - minimal pre-structuring appreciative local use values and ethics more or less transformative Slide 17