Sangam: A Confluence of Knowledge Streams

Culture, Personal Experience and Agency

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dc.creator Sullivan, Paul W.
dc.creator McCarthy, J.
dc.creator Wright, P.
dc.date 2009-12-11T15:39:20Z
dc.date 2009-12-11T15:39:20Z
dc.date 2006
dc.identifier Sullivan, P.W., McCarthy, J. and Wright, P. (2006). Culture, Personal Experience and Agency. British Journal of Social Psychology. Vol. 45, No. 2, pp. 421-439(19).
dc.identifier http://hdl.handle.net/10454/4062
dc.description No
dc.description In this article, we explore what we perceive to be a gap between agency as articulated in practice theories and agency as personally experienced. The gap is not created by a turn to practice in theorizing, but by the tendency to produce theoretical representations that silence the particularity of experience and the diversity of voices in experience. In exploring the gap, we identify aspects of practice theories that explicitly commit to theoretical representation over personal experience and describe Bakhtin's commitment to action and personal experience as an alternative. In order to exemplify Bakhtin's approach in practice, we then present an analysis of one artist-teacher's experience of her own agency in making art and in teaching. Finally, we comment on what a commitment to representational theorizing does to accounts of an artist's activities and personal experience.
dc.language en
dc.relation http://dx.doi.org/10.1348/014466605X49140
dc.subject Agency
dc.subject Female
dc.subject Human
dc.subject Personal Commitment
dc.subject Value
dc.subject Self Perception
dc.subject Case Study
dc.subject Art
dc.subject Personal Experience
dc.title Culture, Personal Experience and Agency
dc.type Article
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