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Research Narrative Designs Dr. William M. Bauer

This document provides an overview of narrative research designs. It begins with a brief history of narrative research in education, noting its increased emphasis in the 1990s. It then discusses questions to consider when determining a narrative design, including who is involved and what is being studied. The key characteristics of narrative designs are explained, such as focusing on individual experiences, collecting stories, restorying them chronologically, identifying themes, and collaborating with participants. Both the strengths and weaknesses of these designs are reviewed. The document concludes by outlining the steps in conducting narrative research and criteria for evaluating studies using this approach.

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Research Narrative Designs Dr. William M. Bauer

This document provides an overview of narrative research designs. It begins with a brief history of narrative research in education, noting its increased emphasis in the 1990s. It then discusses questions to consider when determining a narrative design, including who is involved and what is being studied. The key characteristics of narrative designs are explained, such as focusing on individual experiences, collecting stories, restorying them chronologically, identifying themes, and collaborating with participants. Both the strengths and weaknesses of these designs are reviewed. The document concludes by outlining the steps in conducting narrative research and criteria for evaluating studies using this approach.

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Chapter 16

Research Narrative Designs


Dr. William M. Bauer

l 1
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

l 2
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

l 3
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?

l 4
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

l 6
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

l 7
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

l 8
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

l 9
Strengths and Weaknesses of
Narrative Designs
Strengths Weaknesses
 Collaboration  Participants may
 Gives “voice” to “fake the data”
educators  Telling “horrific”
 Helps others experiences
understand topics  Ownership of the
 Captures everyday story
familiar data

l 10
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

l 11
Steps in Conducting Narrative
Research
 Collaborate with the participant storyteller
 Write a story about the participant’s
experiences
 Validate the accuracy of the report

l 12
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?

l 15
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

l 16

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