ABSTRACT
The use of life stories, life histories and narrative is currently a strongly emerging field of enquiry and one with exciting possibilities for reformulating some of the existing paradigms of educational study. There are, however, a number of question marks that immediately arise in scrutinizing stories such as those reported in the last few chapters. One of the issues I want to focus on in this chapter is the question of the ‘prior script’ on which such stories are based. For stories do not free themselves of the prior script and predilections which are a feature of all our social enquiries and accounts.
