Reflexive Narrative

Self-Inquiry Toward Self-Realization and Its Performance
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Christopher Johns - University of Bedfordshire, UK
Qualitative Research Methods
Reflexive Narrative
March 2020 | 208 pages | Sage US
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Reflexive Narrative: Self-Inquiry Toward Self-Realization and Its Performance is latest addition to the Qualitative Research Methods series. Author Christopher Johns describes this unique method and its developmental approach to research to enable researchers’ self-realization however that might be expressed. This method focuses on systematizing the reflective process and providing structure while still remaining flexible to the needs of individual researchers and projects. Researchers collect data through reflections on everyday experiences and then selectively use the evidence of researcher’s insights. The text starts out with a brief introduction to narrative research and reflexivity, situating the method within the larger context of organizational practices. The next chapters introduce the steps for reflexive narrative research and walk readers through the movements of the reflexive narrative process, writing, reflection, dialogue, guidance, weaving, and audiencing. Additional coverage of ethics and research examples provide a foundation for application of the method to individual research. A chapter on structuring the method for a doctoral thesis furthers the applied nature of this method. Three extracts from studies provide research examples across several social science disciplines, including nursing and education. For students and researchers alike looking for new approaches to reflexive methods and looking to expand their ideas about self-research in a qualitative context, Reflexive Narrative provides a starting place for their own examination of self in the context of research.


Contents

Prologue

Prologue

Acknowledgments

Acknowledgments

About the Author

  • Chapter 1: Contempt: A Barrier to Realizing Leadership
  • Preamble
  • The Narrative
  • Afterword
  • Chapter 2: The Reflexive Narrative Bricolage
  • Reflexive Narrative
  • The Research Spectrum
  • Bricolage
  • Reflective Theory
  • Critical Social Science
  • Hermeneutics
  • Narrative Theory
  • Feminist Slant
  • Women’s Ways of Knowing
  • Non-Western Influence
  • Literary Theory
  • Summary
  • Activity
  • Chapter 3: The Six Dialogical Movements
  • The Six Dialogical Movements
  • Dialogue
  • The Hermeneutic Spiral
  • Summary
  • Activity
  • Chapter 4: Writing Self: The First Dialogical Movement
  • Recall
  • Mimesis and Anti-Mimesis
  • Writing
  • Journal Descriptions
  • Summary
  • Activity
  • Chapter 5: Structured Reflection: The Second Dialogical Movement
  • Structured Reflection
  • Mike
  • Applying the MSR Cues
  • Summary
  • Activity
  • Chapter 6: Drawing Tentative Insights
  • Conceptual Maps
  • The Framing Perspectives
  • Developmental Framing
  • Summary
  • Activity
  • Chapter 7: Cocreating Insights
  • Dialogue With Extant Knowledge: The Third Dialogical Movement
  • Guidance: The Fourth Dialogical Movement
  • The Community of Inquiry
  • No Formal Guidance
  • Summary
  • Activity
  • Chapter 8: Weaving the Reflexive Narrative: The Fifth Dialogical Movement
  • Narrative Time Span
  • Being Creative
  • Magical Realism
  • Writing From the Body
  • Showing Versus Telling
  • Using Tense and Dialogue
  • Giving Voice to Others
  • Using Metaphor
  • Images and Art
  • Narration
  • Writing for Performance
  • Summary
  • Activity
  • Chapter 9: Through a Glass Darkly
  • Preamble
  • Through a Glass Darkly Narrative
  • Activity
  • Chapter 10: Coherence and Ethics
  • Coherence
  • Eyes of Knowing
  • Criteria
  • The Validity Question
  • Rhizomatic Validity
  • Ethics
  • Summary
  • Chapter 11: Audiencing: The Sixth Dialogical Movement
  • Performance
  • Summary
  • Activity
  • Chapter 12: Structuring the Reflexive Thesis
  • Chapter 1 Background
  • Chapter 2 Narrative Construction
  • Chapter 3 The Reflexive Narrative
  • Chapter 4 Deepening the Insights
  • Chapter 5 Reflection on the Journey
  • MSc Leadership in Health Care
  • PhD Program
  • PhD Studies
  • Chapter 13: Concluding Words
  • Appendix A: Illustration of Adenike Akinbode’s Reflexive Narrative Writing
  • Appendix B: Extract From Margaret Graham’s Reflexive Narrative Thesis
  • Appendix C: Reflexive Narrative Publications

References

References

Index

Index

Description

Reflexive Narrative: Self-Inquiry Toward Self-Realization and Its Performance is latest addition to the Qualitative Research Methods series. Author Christopher Johns describes this unique method and its developmental approach to research to enable researchers’ self-realization however that might be expressed. This method focuses on systematizing the reflective process and providing structure while still remaining flexible to the needs of individual researchers and projects. Researchers collect data through reflections on everyday experiences and then selectively use the evidence of researcher’s insights. The text starts out with a brief introduction to narrative research and reflexivity, situating the method within the larger context of organizational practices. The next chapters introduce the steps for reflexive narrative research and walk readers through the movements of the reflexive narrative process, writing, reflection, dialogue, guidance, weaving, and audiencing. Additional coverage of ethics and research examples provide a foundation for application of the method to individual research. A chapter on structuring the method for a doctoral thesis furthers the applied nature of this method. Three extracts from studies provide research examples across several social science disciplines, including nursing and education. For students and researchers alike looking for new approaches to reflexive methods and looking to expand their ideas about self-research in a qualitative context, Reflexive Narrative provides a starting place for their own examination of self in the context of research.


Contents

Prologue

Prologue

Acknowledgments

Acknowledgments

About the Author

  • Chapter 1: Contempt: A Barrier to Realizing Leadership
  • Preamble
  • The Narrative
  • Afterword
  • Chapter 2: The Reflexive Narrative Bricolage
  • Reflexive Narrative
  • The Research Spectrum
  • Bricolage
  • Reflective Theory
  • Critical Social Science
  • Hermeneutics
  • Narrative Theory
  • Feminist Slant
  • Women’s Ways of Knowing
  • Non-Western Influence
  • Literary Theory
  • Summary
  • Activity
  • Chapter 3: The Six Dialogical Movements
  • The Six Dialogical Movements
  • Dialogue
  • The Hermeneutic Spiral
  • Summary
  • Activity
  • Chapter 4: Writing Self: The First Dialogical Movement
  • Recall
  • Mimesis and Anti-Mimesis
  • Writing
  • Journal Descriptions
  • Summary
  • Activity
  • Chapter 5: Structured Reflection: The Second Dialogical Movement
  • Structured Reflection
  • Mike
  • Applying the MSR Cues
  • Summary
  • Activity
  • Chapter 6: Drawing Tentative Insights
  • Conceptual Maps
  • The Framing Perspectives
  • Developmental Framing
  • Summary
  • Activity
  • Chapter 7: Cocreating Insights
  • Dialogue With Extant Knowledge: The Third Dialogical Movement
  • Guidance: The Fourth Dialogical Movement
  • The Community of Inquiry
  • No Formal Guidance
  • Summary
  • Activity
  • Chapter 8: Weaving the Reflexive Narrative: The Fifth Dialogical Movement
  • Narrative Time Span
  • Being Creative
  • Magical Realism
  • Writing From the Body
  • Showing Versus Telling
  • Using Tense and Dialogue
  • Giving Voice to Others
  • Using Metaphor
  • Images and Art
  • Narration
  • Writing for Performance
  • Summary
  • Activity
  • Chapter 9: Through a Glass Darkly
  • Preamble
  • Through a Glass Darkly Narrative
  • Activity
  • Chapter 10: Coherence and Ethics
  • Coherence
  • Eyes of Knowing
  • Criteria
  • The Validity Question
  • Rhizomatic Validity
  • Ethics
  • Summary
  • Chapter 11: Audiencing: The Sixth Dialogical Movement
  • Performance
  • Summary
  • Activity
  • Chapter 12: Structuring the Reflexive Thesis
  • Chapter 1 Background
  • Chapter 2 Narrative Construction
  • Chapter 3 The Reflexive Narrative
  • Chapter 4 Deepening the Insights
  • Chapter 5 Reflection on the Journey
  • MSc Leadership in Health Care
  • PhD Program
  • PhD Studies
  • Chapter 13: Concluding Words
  • Appendix A: Illustration of Adenike Akinbode’s Reflexive Narrative Writing
  • Appendix B: Extract From Margaret Graham’s Reflexive Narrative Thesis
  • Appendix C: Reflexive Narrative Publications

References

References

Index

Index

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Self-Inquiry Toward Self-Realization and Its Performance

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Reflexive Narrative: Self-Inquiry Toward Self-Realization and Its Performance is latest addition to the Qualitative Research Methods series. Author Christopher Johns describes this unique method and its developmental approach to research to enable researchers’ self-realization however that might be expressed. This method focuses on systematizing the reflective process and providing structure while still remaining flexible to the needs of individual researchers and projects. Researchers collect data through reflections on everyday experiences and then selectively use the evidence of researcher’s insights. The text starts out with a brief introduction to narrative research and reflexivity, situating the method within the larger context of organizational practices. The next chapters introduce the steps for reflexive narrative research and walk readers through the movements of the reflexive narrative process, writing, reflection, dialogue, guidance, weaving, and audiencing. Additional coverage of ethics and research examples provide a foundation for application of the method to individual research. A chapter on structuring the method for a doctoral thesis furthers the applied nature of this method. Three extracts from studies provide research examples across several social science disciplines, including nursing and education. For students and researchers alike looking for new approaches to reflexive methods and looking to expand their ideas about self-research in a qualitative context, Reflexive Narrative provides a starting place for their own examination of self in the context of research.



Table Of Contents:

  • Prologue
  • Acknowledgments
  • About the Author
  • Chapter 1: Contempt: A Barrier to Realizing Leadership
  • Preamble
  • The Narrative
  • Afterword
  • Chapter 2: The Reflexive Narrative Bricolage
  • Reflexive Narrative
  • The Research Spectrum
  • Bricolage
  • Reflective Theory
  • Critical Social Science
  • Hermeneutics
  • Narrative Theory
  • Feminist Slant
  • Women’s Ways of Knowing
  • Non-Western Influence
  • Literary Theory
  • Summary
  • Activity
  • Chapter 3: The Six Dialogical Movements
  • The Six Dialogical Movements
  • Dialogue
  • The Hermeneutic Spiral
  • Summary
  • Activity
  • Chapter 4: Writing Self: The First Dialogical Movement
  • Recall
  • Mimesis and Anti-Mimesis
  • Writing
  • Journal Descriptions
  • Summary
  • Activity
  • Chapter 5: Structured Reflection: The Second Dialogical Movement
  • Structured Reflection
  • Mike
  • Applying the MSR Cues
  • Summary
  • Activity
  • Chapter 6: Drawing Tentative Insights
  • Conceptual Maps
  • The Framing Perspectives
  • Developmental Framing
  • Summary
  • Activity
  • Chapter 7: Cocreating Insights
  • Dialogue With Extant Knowledge: The Third Dialogical Movement
  • Guidance: The Fourth Dialogical Movement
  • The Community of Inquiry
  • No Formal Guidance
  • Summary
  • Activity
  • Chapter 8: Weaving the Reflexive Narrative: The Fifth Dialogical Movement
  • Narrative Time Span
  • Being Creative
  • Magical Realism
  • Writing From the Body
  • Showing Versus Telling
  • Using Tense and Dialogue
  • Giving Voice to Others
  • Using Metaphor
  • Images and Art
  • Narration
  • Writing for Performance
  • Summary
  • Activity
  • Chapter 9: Through a Glass Darkly
  • Preamble
  • Through a Glass Darkly Narrative
  • Activity
  • Chapter 10: Coherence and Ethics
  • Coherence
  • Eyes of Knowing
  • Criteria
  • The Validity Question
  • Rhizomatic Validity
  • Ethics
  • Summary
  • Chapter 11: Audiencing: The Sixth Dialogical Movement
  • Performance
  • Summary
  • Activity
  • Chapter 12: Structuring the Reflexive Thesis
  • Chapter 1 Background
  • Chapter 2 Narrative Construction
  • Chapter 3 The Reflexive Narrative
  • Chapter 4 Deepening the Insights
  • Chapter 5 Reflection on the Journey
  • MSc Leadership in Health Care
  • PhD Program
  • PhD Studies
  • Chapter 13: Concluding Words
  • Appendix A: Illustration of Adenike Akinbode’s Reflexive Narrative Writing
  • Appendix B: Extract From Margaret Graham’s Reflexive Narrative Thesis
  • Appendix C: Reflexive Narrative Publications
  • References
  • Index

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