Jonathan's buddy system : exploring alternative ways of being

[摘要] ENGLISH ABSTRACT:The labelling and marginalisation practices implemented and sustained byconventional methods of education and psychology motivated the research curiosity.The significance of the learner's own experiences, the learner's own meaning-makingthrough his/her own story-telling or the stories others tell about him/her and theconstituting effects of alternative identity conclusions are explored as means ofcreating more preferred identity conclusionsIn engaging in the re-tellings of a learner's experiences at home and school, a qualitativeresearch practice has been apllied, revealing meaning-making of alternative stories. Feministtheory and post-modern ideas and discourses have assisted me, and the participant, in thedeconstruction of ADHD, depression, identity and divorce which contributed to themarginalisation of a learner due to dominant discourses within culture, education andpsychopathology. Narrative approaches to therapy and an ethic of participation have guidedus to emphasise the necessity of recognising a learner's preferred ways of understandinghis/her experiences and what that tells about the person.Pseudonyms have been used to respect the participant's privacy.

[发布机构] Stellenbosch University