Narrative inquiry Jane M. Gangi, Ph.D. April 7, 2011 This template can be used as a starter file for presenting training materials in a group setting. Sections Right-click on a slide to add sections. Sections can help to organize your slides or facilitate collaboration between multiple authors. Notes Use the Notes section for delivery notes or to provide additional details for the audience. View these notes in Presentation View during your presentation. Keep in mind the font size (important for accessibility, visibility, videotaping, and online production) Coordinated colors Pay particular attention to the graphs, charts, and text boxes. Consider that attendees will print in black and white or grayscale. Run a test print to make sure your colors work when printed in pure black and white and grayscale. Graphics, tables, and graphs Keep it simple: If possible, use consistent, non-distracting styles and colors. Label all graphs and tables.

An Alternative to Positivism, Narrative Inquiry: Captures the stories of those silenced or marginalized Acknowledges narrative as a way of interpreting the world (recall Bruner, Acts of Meaning) Is grounded in Deweyan notions of experience Empowers participants Is informed by the humanities Give a brief overview of the presentation. Describe the major focus of the presentation and why it is important. Introduce each of the major topics. To provide a road map for the audience, you can repeat this Overview slide throughout the presentation, highlighting the particular topic you will discuss next.

Connelly and Clandinin (2006): “Narrative inquiry, the study of experience as story, then, is first and foremost a way of thinking about experience” (p. 477). This is another option for an Overview slides using transitions.

Tenants of Narrative Research and Writing (Ely, 2007)

1. There are many ways of coming to know something, and even then such knowing is partial. 2. There are numerous ways for us to report. 3. All of our messages have agendas—personal, political, gendered, racial, ethnic. 4. Our language creates reality. 5. As researchers, we are deeply interrelated with what and who is being studied. Research is context-culture bound. So is writing.

6. Affect and cognition are inextricably linked. 7. What we understand and report as social reality is multifaceted, sometimes clashing, and often in flux. 8. We cannot say that narrative reflects “the” reality. We can say that with the help of the reader, narrative creates a version of reality (Ely, 2007, p. 571).

Narrative Inquiry Analysis Temporality Sociality Place Give a brief overview of the presentation. Describe the major focus of the presentation and why it is important. Introduce each of the major topics. To provide a road map for the audience, you can repeat this Overview slide throughout the presentation, highlighting the particular topic you will discuss next.

More Examples on Wiki Posted on pages & Files, Narrative Inquiry Folder (Email me for other recommendations) Give a brief overview of the presentation. Describe the major focus of the presentation and why it is important. Introduce each of the major topics. To provide a road map for the audience, you can repeat this Overview slide throughout the presentation, highlighting the particular topic you will discuss next.

References Angrosino, M. V. (1994). On the bus with Vonnie Lee: Explorations in life history and metaphor. Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, 23, 14-28. Blumenreich, M. (2004). Avoiding the pitfalls of “conventional” narrative research: Using postructural theory to guide the creation of narratives of children with HIV. Qualitative Research, 4(1), 77-90. Clandinin, D. J., Pushor, D., & Orr, A. M. (2007). Navigating sites for narrative inquiry. Journal of Teacher Education, 58(1), 21-35.

References Craig, C. L. Research on the boundaries: Narrative inquiry in the midst of organized school reform. The Journal of Educational Research, 103, 123-136. Connelly, F. M., & Clandinin, D. J. (2006). Narrative inquiry. In J. Green, G. Camilli, P. B. Elmore, with A. Skukauskaité & E. Grace (Eds.), Handbook of complementary methods in research (pp. 477-487). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum. Ely, M. (2007). In-forming re-presentations. In D. J. Clandinin (Ed.), Handbook of narrative inquiry: Mapping a methodology (pp. 567-598). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.