Narrative Inquiry

A Dynamic Approach
Colette Daiute - City University of New York
Narrative Inquiry
October 2013 | 320 pages | SAGE US
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Narrative Inquiry provides both a new theoretical orientation and a set of practical techniques that students and experienced researchers can use to conduct narrative research. Explaining the principles of what she terms “dynamic narrating,” author Colette Daiute provides an approach to narrative inquiry that builds on practices of daily life where we use storytelling to connect with other people, deal with social structures, make sense of surrounding events, and craft our own way of fitting in with various contexts. Throughout the book, Daiute illustrates and applies narrative inquiry with a wide variety of examples, practical activities, charts, suggestions for interpreting analyses, and tips on writing up results. Narrative Inquiry integrates cultural-historical activity, discourse theories (including critical discourse theory and conversation analysis), and interdisciplinary research on narrative as applied to a range of research projects in different cultural settings.  

 



Contents

Chapter 1: The Appeal of Narrative in Research

Chapter 1: The Appeal of Narrative in Research

Chapter 2: Designing Dynamic Narrative Research

Chapter 2: Designing Dynamic Narrative Research

Chapter 3: Values Analysis

Chapter 3: Values Analysis

Chapter 4: Plot Analysis

Chapter 4: Plot Analysis

Chapter 5: Significance Analysis

Chapter 5: Significance Analysis

Chapter 6: Character Mapping and Time Analysis

Chapter 6: Character Mapping and Time Analysis

Chapter 7: Outcomes of Narrative Inquiry

Chapter 7: Outcomes of Narrative Inquiry

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Description

Narrative Inquiry provides both a new theoretical orientation and a set of practical techniques that students and experienced researchers can use to conduct narrative research. Explaining the principles of what she terms “dynamic narrating,” author Colette Daiute provides an approach to narrative inquiry that builds on practices of daily life where we use storytelling to connect with other people, deal with social structures, make sense of surrounding events, and craft our own way of fitting in with various contexts. Throughout the book, Daiute illustrates and applies narrative inquiry with a wide variety of examples, practical activities, charts, suggestions for interpreting analyses, and tips on writing up results. Narrative Inquiry integrates cultural-historical activity, discourse theories (including critical discourse theory and conversation analysis), and interdisciplinary research on narrative as applied to a range of research projects in different cultural settings.  

 



Contents

Chapter 1: The Appeal of Narrative in Research

Chapter 1: The Appeal of Narrative in Research

Chapter 2: Designing Dynamic Narrative Research

Chapter 2: Designing Dynamic Narrative Research

Chapter 3: Values Analysis

Chapter 3: Values Analysis

Chapter 4: Plot Analysis

Chapter 4: Plot Analysis

Chapter 5: Significance Analysis

Chapter 5: Significance Analysis

Chapter 6: Character Mapping and Time Analysis

Chapter 6: Character Mapping and Time Analysis

Chapter 7: Outcomes of Narrative Inquiry

Chapter 7: Outcomes of Narrative Inquiry

Additional materials

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Narrative Inquiry

A Dynamic Approach


October 2013 | 320 pages | SAGE US

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Narrative Inquiry provides both a new theoretical orientation and a set of practical techniques that students and experienced researchers can use to conduct narrative research. Explaining the principles of what she terms “dynamic narrating,” author Colette Daiute provides an approach to narrative inquiry that builds on practices of daily life where we use storytelling to connect with other people, deal with social structures, make sense of surrounding events, and craft our own way of fitting in with various contexts. Throughout the book, Daiute illustrates and applies narrative inquiry with a wide variety of examples, practical activities, charts, suggestions for interpreting analyses, and tips on writing up results. Narrative Inquiry integrates cultural-historical activity, discourse theories (including critical discourse theory and conversation analysis), and interdisciplinary research on narrative as applied to a range of research projects in different cultural settings.  

 




Table Of Contents:

  • Chapter 1: The Appeal of Narrative in Research
  • Chapter 2: Designing Dynamic Narrative Research
  • Chapter 3: Values Analysis
  • Chapter 4: Plot Analysis
  • Chapter 5: Significance Analysis
  • Chapter 6: Character Mapping and Time Analysis
  • Chapter 7: Outcomes of Narrative Inquiry

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This book offers the reader layered explanations of the processes and techniques involved in narrative inquiry with a new level of specificity that does not reduce the data analysis process to a formulaic activity, but rather provides the essential scaffolding needed to advance a more sophisticated analysis. It is well-organized conceptually, clearly written, and accessible.
Thalia M. Mulvihill, Ball State University
Daiute brings a lot of clarity to what has been a “fuzzy” field of inquiry. The many examples from her personal research connect the strategies she offers to actual studies. I recommend this text to other scholars working in narrative inquiry for their classes and/or guidance of their own research.
Mary Louise Gomez, University of Wisconsin-Madison

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