NARRATIVE INQUIRY by Wilber Rojas

NARRATIVE INQUIRY by Wilber Rojas

1. The way that social actores produce, represent and contextualize thier experience and personal knowledge. how they make sense of what happen

2. DATA

   • Can come from: interviews, biography, outobiography,life history interview, personal letters, diaries etc.
     • INTERVIEW Protocol is based on open ended questions
       • Structured: standardized open-ended interview
       • Semi-structured: interview guide approach
       • Unstructured: informal conversational interview
       • Advantage: flexiblity and spontaneity with quality of data & ease of analysis
     • FOCUS GROUP a group discussion of a particular topic of interest
       • Advantages: effective for exploring ideas and optaining in-depth information, gathering opinions, beliefs, and attitudes about the topic, test assumptions. encourages discussion about topic
     • DOCUMENTS
       • Personal documents (written or recorder for private purposes) examples: letters, diaries, family pictures.
       • Official documents (written or recorded by organizations) examples: newspapers, anual reports, yearbooks, minutes.
     • BIOGRAPHICAL STUDY Where researcher writes and records the experiences of another person's life or their professional identity
     • ORAL HISTORY Where researcher gathers personal reflections of events and their causes and effects from one or several individuals
     • AUTOETHNOGRAPHY It is written and recorded by the individuals who are the subject fo study

3. Reading reference: Clandinin, D. J., & Connelly, F. M., (2000). Narrative inquiry: experiences and narrative inquiry in qualitative research. Sna Francisco Ca: Jossey-Bass. Czarniawski, B. (2004). Narrative in social science research. Thousand Oaks. Ca: Sage. Daiute, C. (2014). Narrative inquiry: a dynamic approach. Thousand Oaks, Ca: Sage.