1st Edition
Contextualising Narrative Inquiry Developing methodological approaches for local contexts
Edited By Sheila Trahar
Copyright 2013
232 Pages
14 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
232 Pages
14 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
232 Pages
14 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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Narrative inquiry is growing in popularity as a research methodology in the social sciences, medicine and the humanities. In narrative inquiry, the transparency of interactions between researcher and research participants, together with rich, contextual descriptions, help to shape and structure research texts rendering them engaging and readable.
Contextualising Narrative Inquiry argues that... Read more
1. What’s in a Sign? Narrative inquiry and deaf storytellers Donna West 2. Private Lives, Public Property: Narrating the lives of mothers whose children have significant special needs Jenny Knibb 3. Looking Down on the World from a Wooden Balcony: A narrative autoethnnographic study of voluntary celibacy Dione Mifsud 4. Workplace Bullying in Higher Education: An autothnographic perspective Mary Baker 5. ‘The Teeth and the Tongue’: A narrative inquiry journey in Ghana Janetta Sika Akoto 6. Seeing with New Eyes: Becoming a narrative inquirer in higher education practice Narina A. Samah 7. Narrative Inquiry in a Divided Island: Dealing with Sensitive and complex methodological issues in Cyprus Evgenia Partasi 8. A Conversation with Ah Leung Christina Yip Pui Lin 9. Catalan Teacher Meets Chilean Researcher: (De) constructing subjectivities through the interplay of textual narratives Veronica Larrain 10. No Horror Stories to Tell: Critical moments in exploring the literacy practices of Jamaican –born elders in the UK Pam Bennett 11. Words Collide, Mindsets Remain: A journey of cross-cultural narrative inquiry Jane Horan
Biography
Sheila Trahar is Senior Lecturer in the Graduate School of Education at the University of Bristol, UK.
