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Training course Organization: Comparative Cultural Studies Research Group and Migration Studies Research Group Coordination: Clara Keating and Elsa Lechner The advanced training course “Biographying” aims to create a biographical workshop. Following methodologies worked on the life stories in training, the course encourages the production of autobiographical writing exercises and the subsequent sharing of their stories. The general objective is to socialize the participants in a methodology of group work and experience, in particular, its impact on training, transforming and social action. The specific objective will be to develop a critical epistemic attitude of slow listening of the other. During two days, the workshop will run through the stages of writing, listening, resonance, sharing, and socialization of biographical narratives, and the analysis of themes, moments, variants and invariants identified by each and every one of the participants. Particular attention will also be given to issues of language and context of report production. At the end of the course the relevance of the method and its applicability in professional lives will be explored. The course addresses a heterogeneous audience that is interested in life stories: students, researchers, trainers, educators, social workers, mediators (intercultural and other) workers from nongovernmental organizations, therapists, and other professionals working on intervention and social action fields. Given the nature of the methodologies combined with biographical approaches, including the slow process of writing, listening and reading associated with it, the course may not include more than 10 participants. These will be selected after analysis of letters of motivation and CV's. 9.30 – 10.30: Introduction – Theoretical assumptions, methodology, rules and contract 10.30 – 10.45: Coffee Break 10.45 – 11.45: Introduction (continued): Listening exercises 11.45 – 12.45: Autobiographical writing 13.00 – 14.30: Lunch Break 14.30 – 16.00: Listening, resonance and sharing of stories 16.00 – 16.15: Coffee Break 16.15 – 17.30: Listening, resonance and sharing of stories (continued) 9.30 – 10.45: Sharing and socialization of biographical narratives (continued) 10.45 – 11.15: Coffee Break 11.15 – 13.00: Identification of themes, moments, variants and invariants of biographical stories 13.00 – 14.30: Lunch Break 14.30 – 16.00: Summary of themes, moments, variants and invariants of biographical stories 16.00 – 16.15: Coffee Break 16.15 – 18.00: Final discussion: relevance of method and its applicability in professional life 9.30 – 13.00: Summary and final discussion: relevance of method and its applicability in professional life In order to make your pre-registration in this training course, you must send a letter of motivation (no more than a page), a short CV (one page) and a photograph, until September 13th 2010 to biografar@ces.uc.pt . Those who are selected to attend the course will be contacted afterwards in order to complete the registration. |