This study examined personal narratives written by 364 inner-city 4th–6th graders about an experience with interpersonal conflict. Stories were coded for three sets of variables based on Bruner’s 1990 work on narrative thought. The co-occurrences of these variables lent support to the notions that (a) establishing a moral voice involves noting what is culturally non-canonical and providing culturally recognizable explanations, (b) taking an epistemological stance that recognizes the importance of what the protagonists know and think and of what can count as a true or meaningful representation of events, and (c) making moral evaluations and positioning the self relative to what is construed as good or bad. Comparisons between children from a high-crime, high-poverty neighborhood to those from a less dangerous environment raised questions about how we bring children into the moral discourse of a culture, and how their appropriation of interpretive repertoires to explain their own experiences may contribute to cultural change.
Davidson, Alice J., Marsha D. Walton & Robert Cohen
2013. Patterns of Conflict Experience That Emerge in Peer Reports and Personal Narratives During Middle Childhood. Applied Developmental Science 17:3 ► pp. 109 ff.
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2017. Narrative skills predict peer adjustment across elementary school years. Social Development 26:4 ► pp. 891 ff.
Goodman, Valeda Dent
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Harris, Alexis R. & Marsha D. Walton
2009. “Thank You for Making Me Write This.” Narrative Skills and the Management of Conflict in Urban Schools. The Urban Review 41:4 ► pp. 287 ff.
Nzinga, Kalonji
2023. Why Errybody Sayin ‘No New Friends’?: The Proverbs of Rap and Why Young People Recite Them. Cognition and Instruction► pp. 1 ff.
2013. “Two for Flinching”: Children's and Adolescents' Narrative Accounts of Harming Their Friends and Siblings. Child Development 84:4 ► pp. 1459 ff.
Siedlikowski, Sophia, Shauna Van Praagh, Meaghan Shevell & Franco A. Carnevale
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Smith, Jonathan M.
2007. The Texas Aggie Bonfire: A Conservative Reading of Regional Narratives, Traditional Practices, and a Paradoxical Place. Annals of the Association of American Geographers 97:1 ► pp. 182 ff.
Walton, Marsha D., Alexis R. Harris & Alice J. Davidson
2009. “It Makes Me a Man from the Beating I Took”: Gender and Aggression in Children’s Narratives About Conflict. Sex Roles 61:5-6 ► pp. 383 ff.
2002. Romance and friendship in pre-teen stories about conflicts: `we decided that boys are not worth it'. Discourse & Society 13:5 ► pp. 673 ff.
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