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Presentation by Nicola Groves at the third ESRC funded seminar on participatory research with people with learning disabilities
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Taking part by Telling StoriesNicola Grove
Openstorytellers
www.openstorytellers.org.uk
Openstorytellers
Research
Story
Process
Research Story
Story and research
Theory
• A theory is an idea which:-
• Helps you think about problems
• Explains why something happens
• Suggests what will happen next
Partial Participation
You CAN do something
Even if you can’t do EVERYTHING
Baumgart et al., 1982
Theories about storytellingwhat do these images suggest?
Stories are what you read to kids: in education this is the dominant idea; almost no oral personal narrative in curriculum
Stories are performances by
one person, everyone listens
quietly.Can lead to “oh dear, I can’t tell
stories”
People tell stories together,
the listener is actively
involved; stories of personal
experience are face to face, animated.
EVERYONE does this all the
time!
This is what we do in
Storysharing
&
Storysharing is…
• Telling stories together• Using whatever communication skills are
available• Focusing on meaning and feelings
Hopes and Dreams project
• Ideas you can grasp
• cf. Natural semantic metalanguage Wierzbicka, 2010
• Photo of girl holding heart cushion, representing love, dreams
• Photo of girl holding megaphone to represent voice, speaking up
Community: mobility allowance campaign 2011
• We need money for our bus – jigsaw of bus
• Each person chooses a piece of the bus as their contribution
• We put the bus jigsaw together – we need all our money
• A lady tells the story of how going to Stonehenge in the bus helped her to remember a trip there when she was little – she has just relocated to our home in Wiltshire from the Midlands. This helped her to feel connected and manage the transition.
• We sent a DVD of our presentation to the MP. He supported our campaign to keep mobility allowance for people in residential settings
Truth to power: telling stories
• We hold participatory meetings about local civic issues where people are supported to share their experiences. Here we are telling them to our MP. We use music, karoake, objects and communication aids so everyone can join in
Key points
• Co-authoring• Working together• Finding the one key
contribution that each person can make
Contact www.openstorytellers.org.uk
For information on Storysharing and community connecting