A lot of the early work on narrative, which I summarised yesterday was largely based on instinct and common sense. There was background theory – I focused on aesthetics and ethics when I studied Philosophy and I was formally trained in rhetoric at school and carried that forward into competitive debating at University and beyond. […]
As I indicated yesterday my group in IBM UK got into the wider field of narrative through the process of knowledge discovery. We found that collecting stories around decisions made allowed us to more effectively may what people knew by creating a meaningful context. We also discovered that people journaling that experience was more effective […]
In this second section, I am moving on to the wider field of narrative. I wrote a paper on narrative and phenomenology while at University for a college seminar on feminism which got me into an over-intensive library period looking at archetypal story forms in different societies. That involved a mixture of fascination and […]
This is the second post of several that I am publishing this month to update some of my original work in knowledge management and in particular the role of narrative in as a scaffold of meaning between and within individuals, community and society. I’ve been checking back on previous articles as I am working with Patrick […]
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