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Chapter 16
Narrative Research Designs
Educational Research by John W. Creswell. Copyright © 2002 by Pearson Education. All rights reserved.
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Key Ideas
Brief history of narrative research
Questions for determining narrative designs
Key characteristics of narrative designs
Strengths and weaknesses of narrative
designs
Steps in conducting narrative research
Criteria for evaluating narrative research
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A Brief History of Narrative
Research in Education
1990 Clandinin and Connelly first overview
of narrative research in education
Trends influencing the development of
narrative research
– increased emphasis on teacher reflection
– emphasis placed on teacher knowledge
– attempt to bring teachers’ voices to the
forefront
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Questions for Determining
Narrative Designs
Who writes or records the story?
How much of a life is recorded or
presented?
Who provides the story?
Is a theoretical lens being used?
When can narrative forms be combined?
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Key Characteristics of Narrative
Designs
Focuses on individual experiences
Reports a chronology of the experiences
– use a time sequence of events
– chronology sets narrative apart
Collects the individual stories told to the
researcher or gathered through field texts
– autobiographies
– interviews
– journals
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Key Characteristics of Narrative
Designs
Restories the individual stories
– researcher gathers stories and analyzes them for
elements of the story
– researcher rewrites the story to place it in a
chronological sequence
– restorying provides a causal link among ideas
– information would include interaction,
continuity, and situation
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Key Characteristics of Narrative
Designs
Coding for themes
– themes provide the complexity of the story
– themes add depth to the insight about
understanding an individual’s experiences
– themes can be incorporated into the passage
retelling the individual’s experience or as a
separate section of the study
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Key Characteristics of Narrative
Designs
Describes the context or setting for the
individual stories
– includes the people involved in the story
– includes the physical setting
– setting may be described before events or
actions, or can be woven throughout the study
collaborates throughout the process of
research with the individuals whose stories
are being reported
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Key Characteristics of Narrative
Designs
collaborates throughout the process of
research with the individuals whose stories
are being reported
– participants are actively involved in the inquiry
as it unfolds
– relationships between research and participant
are negotiated to minimize the potential gap
between narrative told and narrative reported
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Strengths and Weaknesses of
Narrative Designs
Strengths
Collaboration
Gives “voice” to
educators
Helps others
understand topics
Captures everyday
familiar data
Weaknesses
Participants may “fake
the data”
Telling “horrific”
experiences
Ownership of the story
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Steps in Conducting Narrative
Research
Identify a phenomenon to explore that
addresses an educational problem
Purposefully select an individual to learn
about the phenomenon
Collect the story from the individual
Restory or retell the individual’s story
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Steps in Conducting Narrative
Research
Collaborate with the participant storyteller
Write a story about the participant’s
experiences
Validate the accuracy of the report
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Criteria for Evaluating Narrative
Research
Does the researcher focus on individual
experiences?
Is there a focus on a single individual or a
few individuals?
Did the researcher collect the story of an
individual’s experience?
Was there a restorying by the researcher of
the participant’s story?
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Criteria for Evaluating Narrative
Research
In the restorying, was the participant’s voice
as well as the researcher’s voice heard?
Did the researcher identify themes that
emerged from the story?
Did the story include information about
place or setting of the individual?
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Criteria for Evaluating Narrative
Research
Did the story have a temporal,
chronological sequence including the past,
present and future?
Is there evidence that the researcher
collaborated with the participant?
Does the story adequately address the
purpose and questions of the researcher?
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Applying What you Have
Learned: Narrative Designs
Review the article and look for the following:
The research problem and use of quantitative
research
Use of the literature
The purpose statement and research hypothesis
Types and procedures of data collection
Types and procedures of data analysis and
interpretation
The overall report structure
Educational Research by John W. Creswell. Copyright ©2002 by Pearson Education. All rights reserved.
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