In Engaging in Narrative Inquiry, Second Edition, D. Jean Clandinin, a pioneer in narrative research, updates her classic formulation on narrative inquiry, clarifying, extending, and refining methods.
This updated edition looks at changes and developments in the field since the publication of the first edition in 2013, exploring how narrative inquiry explores human lives through a narrative lens that honors experience as a source of important knowledge and understanding. The book includes several exemplary cases with the author’s critique and analysis of the work.
The following are new to this edition:
- New exemplary cases, including Menon’s autobiographical narrative inquiry as the starting point for framing a research puzzle and justifying a study, Chung’s account of a study that begins with living alongside participants, and a paper from Swanson’s autobiographical narrative inquiry
- An expanded discussion of the philosophical grounding of narrative inquiry
- An expanded discussion of relational ethics in narrative inquiry that highlights links to a relational ontology
- An updated account of the field of narrative inquiry that highlights future directions, including the necessity of response groups, and questions of responsibility and community
The increasing interest in narrative inquiry as research methodology across disciplines makes this book an essential guide and an excellent text for graduate courses in qualitative inquiry, education and nursing research, sociology, and all courses in autobiographical and narrative research and inquiry.
Introduction. Narrative Inquiry: Both a View of and a Methodology for Studying Experience 1. Living, Telling, and Retelling: Processes of Narrative Inquiry 2. Designing and Living Out a Narrative Inquiry 3. Narrative Beginnings: Sajani (Jinny) Menon 4. Unpacking “Narrative Beginnings” in Sajani Menon’s Doctoral Study 5. Beginning with Telling Stories: Andrew’s Stories of Playing Basketball 6. Unpacking “Beginning with Telling Stories: Andrew’s Stories of Playing Basketball” 7. Beginning with Living Stories: Simmee Chung’s “Education Is Ceremony: Thinking With Stories of Indigenous Youth and Families” 8. Unpacking “Education Is Ceremony: Thinking With Stories of Indigenous Youth and Families” 9. Autobiographical Narrative Inquiries: Cindy Swanson’s “Unbundling Stories” 10. Unpacking “Unbundling Stories: Encountering Tensions between the Familial and School Curriculum-Making Worlds” 11. Narrating Relational Ethics throughout the Inquiry and Beyond 12. Research Texts: Revisiting the Justifications for the Inquiry 13. A Reflective Turn on Narrative Inquiry
Biography
D. Jean Clandinin is Professor Emerita at the University of Alberta, Canada, and the founding director of the Centre for Research for Teacher Education and Development. Her work with narrative inquiry is published and translated in many books and articles.
