The Knowledge Construction of Change and
The Change during Knowledge Construction
Lin Shiang-June
Abstract
The research is on the exploration of change. We
intent to explore experience of what and how the ''change''
is. The research is as a process toward the knowledge
construction of ''change''.
Self-narrative study was adopted. In the beginning,
we started the research by the ''Second-Order Change''
exploration and intended to have a definition.
A coding method was adopted to analyze the change-narrative
text. After the analysis, the researcher had a reflection
on that research action and find it was not the right way
to approach to the subject''s experience. By this reflection,
we had a methodological detour to Hermeneutics-Phenomenology
research. Instead of defining what ''change'' is, we went back
to the subjectivity--the experience themselves. We had two
texts to be interpreted: one from the researcher''s autobiography
and the other from a female co-researcher''s narrative-interview,
who both were professional counselors. Each text was interpreted
according two layers: the first for how the subjects framed the
change experience from their context; and the second for the
recontextualization from social context.
The researcher got the knowledge of ''change'' from these
narratives interpretation: on the subject''s context layer, ''change''
was referred to the different pattern by way of the ''reframing'' of
personal construct; and on the social context layer, ''change'' was
referred to the different pattern in the social context by way of
the reframing from personal context to social context. Based on
the knowledge construction about ''change'', reflection and discussion
were proposed.