Co-constructing Understanding of Self Access through Conversational Narrative

dc.creator	John Adamson
dc.creator	Howard Brown
dc.creator	Naoki Fujimoto-Adamson
dc.date	2010-12-01T00:00:00Z
dc.date.accessioned	2015-07-20T22:10:03Z
dc.date.available	2015-07-20T22:10:03Z
dc.identifier	2185-3762
dc.identifier	https://doaj.org/article/e7005046626145c0a5175c05d8544b5e
dc.identifier.uri	http://evidence.thinkportal.org/handle/123456789/13329
dc.description	This study has shown how stakeholders of a new Self Access Learning Center (SALC) co-construct views about the center’s development though conversational narratives. Conversational narratives are a means in this study to provide important insights into SALC’s growth and also represent sites of valuable social practice to strengthen collegiality among its participants. This dialogic process illustrates a diversity of perspectives which have emerged over the first year in its growth, and which inform the center’s management on metaphors of self access, language policy, its integration with university curricula, and how it and its staff are positioned in the organization. As part of a larger ethnographic study into the center, these unscripted, free-form dialogues are valued because they mirror the flat hierarchical structure which the center aims to support in its community of practice to legitimize its participants’ voices.
dc.language	English
dc.publisher	Kanda University of International Studies
dc.relation	http://sisaljournal.org/archives/dec10/adamson_et_al/
dc.relation	https://doaj.org/toc/2185-3762
dc.source	Studies in Self-Access Learning Journal , Vol 1, Iss 3, Pp 173-188 (2010)
dc.subject	self access
dc.subject	growth
dc.subject	voices
dc.subject	community
dc.subject	conversational narrative
dc.subject	Education (General)
dc.subject	L7-991
dc.subject	Education
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dc.subject	DOAJ:Education
dc.subject	DOAJ:Social Sciences
dc.subject	Education (General)
dc.subject	L7-991
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	DOAJ:Education
dc.subject	DOAJ:Social Sciences
dc.subject	Education (General)
dc.subject	L7-991
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	Education (General)
dc.subject	L7-991
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	Education (General)
dc.subject	L7-991
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.title	Co-constructing Understanding of Self Access through Conversational Narrative
dc.type	article