Life History and NarrativeJ. Amos Hatch, Richard Wisniewski Narrative inquiry refers to a subset of qualitative research design in which stories are used to describe human action. This book contains current ideas in this emerging field of research. Chapters include a qualitative analysis of narrative data; criteria for evaluating narrative inquiry, linking emotion and reason through narrative voice, audience and the politics of narrative; trust in educational storytelling; narrative strategies for case reports; life history narratives and women's gender identity; and issues in life history and narrative inquiry. This text is intended to be of interest to all qualitative researchers and education researchers studying forms of narrative. |
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... human existence as situated action. Narrative descriptions exhihit human activity as purposeful engagemem in the world. Narrative is the type of discourse composition that draws together diverse evems, happenings, and actions of human ...
... human existence as situated action. Narrative descriptions exhihit human activity as purposeful engagemem in the world. Narrative is the type of discourse composition that draws together diverse evems, happenings, and actions of human ...
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... human experience as lived can he expressed (Ricoeur, 1 986/ 1 99 1 ). The focus of this paper is on narrative as ... human action with its imerrelationship of temporal sequence, human motivation, chance happenings, and changing ...
... human experience as lived can he expressed (Ricoeur, 1 986/ 1 99 1 ). The focus of this paper is on narrative as ... human action with its imerrelationship of temporal sequence, human motivation, chance happenings, and changing ...
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... human actions and outcomes. The plot relates evems hy causally linking a prior choice or happening to a later effect ... human existence hy including in their inquiries the unique characteristics that differemiate human existence from ...
... human actions and outcomes. The plot relates evems hy causally linking a prior choice or happening to a later effect ... human existence hy including in their inquiries the unique characteristics that differemiate human existence from ...
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... human expressions and cultural artifacts. The historian Dray, writing in the late 1950s, argued that the deductive-nomological mode of explanation was not as appropriate for understanding human action as is a narrative-like explanation ...
... human expressions and cultural artifacts. The historian Dray, writing in the late 1950s, argued that the deductive-nomological mode of explanation was not as appropriate for understanding human action as is a narrative-like explanation ...
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... humans constitute their experience as ordered and consistem. It produces cognitive networks of concepts that allow people to construct experiences as familiar hy emphasizing the common elemems that appear over and over. The networks are ...
... humans constitute their experience as ordered and consistem. It produces cognitive networks of concepts that allow people to construct experiences as familiar hy emphasizing the common elemems that appear over and over. The networks are ...
Contents
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Fidelity as a criterion for practicing and evaluating narrative inquiry | 25 |
Audience and the politics of narrative | 49 |
personal knowledge and the political | 89 |
questions issues and exemplary works | 113 |
Notes on Comrihutors | 137 |
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