Reflections on the Narrative Research Approach

Reflections on the Narrative Research Approach

1. used in studies

   • educational practice
   • educational experience

2. the study of how human beings experience the world....

   • and narrative researchers collect these stories and write narratives of experience.

3. The sociocultural foundation of narrative research

   • the importance of the environment
     • for individuals
   • many ideas from authors
     • Bakhtin
     • Vygotsky

4. 3 basic claims about narrative research

   • 1. Human beings organize their experiences of the world into narratives.
   • 2. Narrative researchers maintain that the stories that are told.
   • 3. The multivoicedness that occurs in the narratives.

5. The narrative research process

   • one of the main characteristics
     • is the collaboration process between the researcher and her or his research subjects.
   • Creating a narrative implies a process whereby an accurate story that occurs in collaboration between the researcher and the research subject becomes fixed in a written text