A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal
Digital Stories Representing Agency Enhancement at Work
Authors: Hakanurmi Satu, Palonen Tuire, Murtonen Mari
Publisher: Sage Publications
Publication year: 2021
Journal: Adult Education Quarterly
Volume: 71
Issue: 3
First page : 251
Last page: 271
Number of pages: 21
ISSN: 0741-7136
eISSN: 1552-3047
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/0741713621989990
Web address : https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0741713621989990
Self-archived copy’s web address: https://research.utu.fi/converis/portal/detail/Publication/52796100
This case study about agency enhancement at work in a business organization is based on narrative inquiry. After a staff development project lasting 2½ years, the employees produced digital stories concerning their meaningful moments at work. Through social interactional narrative analysis, multimodal transcription, and text analysis, we examined how agency was enhanced according the narratives. Agency enhancement involved the incoherency between present cognitive models, attitudes, and practices of work compared with inner or outer expectations. Employees used lifelong experiences in their digital stories, which provided a rich source of data, including the visuals and transcripts, offering a unique vantage point for narrative analysis. These digital stories revealed the sociocultural, transformative, and situational modalities of agency enhancement as well as the relationship between epistemic selves and sociocultural bindings in the reforming of agency.
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