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Understanding Narrative Inquiry: The Crafting and Analysis of Stories as Research

  • By: Jeong-Hee Kim
  • Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc.
  • Publication year: 2016
  • Online pub date: December 20, 2019
  • Discipline: Sociology
  • Methods: Narrative research , Narrative analysis , Life history research
  • DOI: https:// doi. org/10.4135/9781071802861
  • Keywords: art , critical race theory , inquiry , knowledge , storytelling , students , teaching Show all Show less
  • Print ISBN: 9781452282787
  • Online ISBN: 9781071802861
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This comprehensive, thought-provoking introduction to narrative inquiry in the social and human sciences guides readers through the entire narrative inquiry process–from locating narrative inquiry in the interdisciplinary context, through the philosophical and theoretical underpinnings, to narrative research design, data collection (excavating stories), data analysis and interpretation, and theorizing narrative meaning. Six extracts from exemplary studies, together with questions for discussion, are provided to show how to put theory into practice. Rich in stories from the author’s own research endeavors and incorporating chapter-opening vignettes that illustrate a graduate student’s research dilemma, the book not only accompanies readers through the complex process of narrative inquiry with ample examples, but also helps raise their consciousness about what it means to be a qualitative researcher and a narrative inquirer in particular.

Front Matter

  • Praise for Understanding Narrative Inquiry
  • About the Author
  • Chapter 1 | Locating Narrative Inquiry in the Interdisciplinary Context
  • Chapter 2 | Philosophical/Theoretical Underpinnings of Narrative Inquiry
  • Chapter 3 | Narrative Research Design: Engaging in Aesthetic Play
  • Chapter 4 | Narrative Research Genres: Mediating Stories Into Being
  • Chapter 5 | Narrative Data Collection Methods: Excavating Stories
  • Chapter 6 | Narrative Data Analysis and Interpretation: “Flirting” With Data
  • Chapter 7 | Narrative Coda: Theorizing Narrative Meaning
  • Chapter 8 | Critical Issues in Narrative Inquiry: Looking Into a Kaleidoscope
  • Chapter 9 | Examples of Narrative Inquiry: Theory Into Practice
  • Chapter 10 | Epilogue

Back Matter

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Qualitative study design: Narrative inquiry

  • Qualitative study design
  • Phenomenology
  • Grounded theory
  • Ethnography

Narrative inquiry

  • Action research
  • Case Studies
  • Field research
  • Focus groups
  • Observation
  • Surveys & questionnaires
  • Study Designs Home

Narrative inquiry can reveal unique perspectives and deeper understanding of a situation. Often giving voice to marginalised populations whose perspective is not often sought. 

Narrative inquiry records the experiences of an individual or small group, revealing the lived experience or particular perspective of that individual, usually primarily through interview which is then recorded and ordered into a chronological narrative. Often recorded as biography, life history or in the case of older/ancient traditional story recording - oral history.  

  • Qualitative survey 
  • Recordings of oral history (documents can be used as support for correlation and triangulation of information mentioned in interview.) 
  • Focus groups can be used where the focus is a small group or community. 

Reveals in-depth detail of a situation or life experience.  

Can reveal historically significant issues not elsewhere recorded. 

Narrative research was considered a way to democratise the documentation and lived experience of a wider gamut of society. In the past only the rich could afford a biographer to have their life experience recorded, narrative research gave voice to marginalised people and their lived experience. 

Limitations

“The Hawthorne Effect is the tendency, particularly in social experiments, for people to modify their behaviour because they know they are being studied, and so to distort (usually unwittingly) the research findings.” SRMO  

The researcher must be heavily embedded in the topic with a broad understanding of the subject’s life experience in order to effectively and realistically represent the subject’s life experience. 

There is a lot of data to be worked through making this a time-consuming method beyond even the interview process itself. 

Subject’s will focus on their lived experience and not comment on the greater social movements at work at the time. For example, how the Global Financial Crisis affected their lives, not what caused the Global Financial Crisis. 

This research method relies heavily on the memory of the subject. Therefore, triangulation of the information is recommended such as asking the question in a different way, at a later date, looking for correlating documentation or interviewing similarly related participants. 

Example questions

  • What is the lived experience of a home carer for a terminal cancer patient? 
  • What is it like for parents to have their children die young? 
  • What was the role of the nurse in Australian hospitals in the 1960s? 
  • What is it like to live with cerebral palsy? 
  • What are the difficulties of living in a wheelchair? 

Example studies

  • Francis, M. (2018). A Narrative Inquiry Into the Experience of Being a Victim of Gun Violence. Journal of Trauma Nursing, 25(6), 381–388. https://doi-org.ezproxy-f.deakin.edu.au/10.1097/JTN.0000000000000406 
  •  Kean, B., Oprescu, F., Gray, M., & Burkett, B. (2018). Commitment to physical activity and health: A case study of a paralympic gold medallist. Disability and Rehabilitation, 40(17), 2093-2097. doi:10.1080/09638288.2017.1323234  https://doi-org.ezproxy-f.deakin.edu.au/10.1080/09638288.2017.1323234
  • Liamputtong, P. (2009). Qualitative research methods. Oxford University Press. Retrieved from http://ezproxy.deakin.edu.au/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=cat00097a&AN=deakin.b2351301&site=eds-live   
  • Padgett, D. (2012). Qualitative and mixed methods in public health. SAGE. Retrieved from http://ezproxy.deakin.edu.au/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=cat00097a&AN=deakin.b3657335&authtype=sso&custid=deakin&site=eds-live&scope=site    
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