Narrative Research
Narrative Research was Influenced by the Following Three Trends:
Narrative Research was Influenced by the Following Three Trends:
- Increased emphasis on teacher reflection for what worked or didn’t work.
- More attention given to what teachers know, how they think, and how they make classroom decisions.
- The ability to shed light on teacher’s stories, and enabling to reflect on their personal experiences.
What is Narrative Research?
What is Narrative Research?
- A form of inquiry where researches describe the lives of individuals, collect and tell stories about people’s lives, and write narratives of individual experiences.
- A form of qualitative research that focuses on studying a single person.
- Data is gathered through the collection of stories, individual experiences, and discussing the meaning of the those experiences for the individual.
Why Narrative Research?
Why Narrative Research?
- It gives people a voice and chance to discuss their experiences.
- It gives an opportunity to explore research problems by including and analyzing the experiences of an individual.
- Useful for better understanding our patients and why they may choose a certain treatment or another.
- It can offer a specific way of caring about how knowledge is produced, and how it affects human thought and behaviour.
Common Characteristics and Assumptions of Narrative Research:
Common Characteristics and Assumptions of Narrative Research:
- Narrative research is a means by which we systematically gather, analyze, and represent people’s stories as told by them.
- It challenges reality, knowledge, and personhood.
- Provides a narrative story of the phenomenon of interest that can assist in the understanding of why the participants did what they did.
- Narratives provide a window into the process of self identity.
- Narratives allows the nurse to have an insider view and deeper understanding of the issues that arise between the nurse patient relationship.
- Narrative research can enable us to establish a therapeutic relationship with our patients.
- Narrative research is the belief that the stories being told hold special influences and provides a unique perspective of individuals and the social world.
- Narrative research often “assumes a distinction between the representation and that which is represented."
- Narrative research focuses on representing real life experiences in a transparent fashion.
- Narrative research assumes the participant(s) offers the most accurate and powerful insights into the specific phenomena of study.
- Narrative research emphasizes the importance of learning from their participants.
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