AA603Fall2022 - DEFINITION

WHAT IS NARRATIVE RESEARCH?

Narrative research has been defined in several distinctive ways. Overcash (2003) likened it to "collecting and analyzing the accounts people tell to describe experiences and offer interpretation". Gundundsdottir (2001) took a more scientifice approach, stating it is "the study of how human beings experience the world, and narrative researchers collect these stories and write narratives of experience". The concept of narration is multifaceted, and Carless and Douglas (2017) took it a step further with their definition: "Narrative is both a research method and a way of theorizing psychological and social phenomena".

WHAT IS THE HISTORY OF NARRATIVE RESEARCH?

Whilst trying to understand teachers’ experiences in the 1990’s, Connely and Clandinin looked at using a narrative approach (Wang & Geal, 2015). Utilizing the philosopher Dewey’s idea that a personal view, understanding the temporal (timeline) and looking at the entire situation, one could describe the characteristics of one’s experience.

WHAT ARE THE STEPS OF NARRATIVE RESEARCH?

The seven steps of narrative research include:

· Identify a problem or phenomenon to explore

· Select one or more participants to study

· Collect the story from that participant

· Re-story or retell the individual’s story

· Collaborate with the participant/storyteller

· Write a story about the participant’s experiences

· Validate the report’s accuracy

MEDIA LINK TO ENHANCE LEARNING

Types of Qualitative Research: Narrative, Phenomenology, Grounded Theory, Ethnography and Case Studies

David Dunaetz

REFERENCES

Dunaetz, D. (2020, December 3). Types of Qualitative Research: Narrative, Phenomenology, Grounded Theory, Ethnography, & Case Studies [Video]. You Tube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khTwY295eoU

Carless, D., & Douglas, K. (2017). Narrative research. The Journal of Positive Psychology: Dedicated to Furthering Research and Promoting Good Practice, 12(3), 307-308. Retrieved from http://eprints.leedsbeckett.ac.uk/id/eprint/2028/1/Narrative%20research%20in%20press.pdf

Overcash, J. (2003). Narrative research: A review of methodology and relevance to clinical practice. Critical Reviews in Oncology/Hematology, 48(2), 179-184. Retrieved from https://0-doi- org.aupac.lib.athabascau.ca/10.1016/j.critrevonc.2003.04.006

Gudmundsdottir, S. (2001). Narrative research on school practice. In V. Richardson (Ed.), Fourth handbook for research on teaching (pp. 226-240). MacMillan.

Wang, C. C., & Geal, S. K. (2015). The power of story: Narrative inquiry as a methodology in nursing research. International Journal of Nursing Sciences, 2(2), 195-198. Retrieved from https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/international-journal-of-nursing-sciences/vol/2/issue/2