Developing concept
Narrative Self-Guidance
How people participate in interpreting and revising the accounts that shape their lives.
A developing area of Monica Ross’s research, informed by Paul Ricoeur’s work on narrative identity, capability, and self-attestation.
Area of inquiry
This concept concerns how new experiences reshape the meaning of earlier ones while preserving human participation in self-understanding.
Questions in development
The project asks how interpretation can support understanding while preserving the possibility of response, learning, and revision.