Description
Book SynopsisIn Engaging in Narrative Inquiry, Second Edition, D. Jean Clandinin, a pioneer in narrative research, updates her classic formulation on narrative inquiry, clarifying, extending, and refining methods.
This updated edition looks at changes and developments in the field since the publication of the first edition in 2013, exploring how narrative inquiry explores human lives through a narrative lens that honors experience as a source of important knowledge and understanding. The book includes several exemplary cases with the author's critique and analysis of the work.
The following are new to this edition:
- New exemplary cases, including Menon's autobiographical narrative inquiry as the starting point for framing a research puzzle and justifying a study, Chung's account of a study that begins with living alongside participants, and a paper from Swanson's autobiographical narrative inquiry
- An expanded discussion of the ph
Table of Contents
Introduction. Narrative Inquiry: Both a View of and a Methodology for Studying Experience 1. Living, Telling, and Retelling: Processes of Narrative Inquiry 2. Designing and Living Out a Narrative Inquiry 3. Narrative Beginnings: Sajani (Jinny) Menon 4. Unpacking “Narrative Beginnings” in Sajani Menon’s Doctoral Study 5. Beginning with Telling Stories: Andrew’s Stories of Playing Basketball 6. Unpacking “Beginning with Telling Stories: Andrew’s Stories of Playing Basketball” 7. Beginning with Living Stories: Simmee Chung’s “Education Is Ceremony: Thinking With Stories of Indigenous Youth and Families” 8. Unpacking “Education Is Ceremony: Thinking With Stories of Indigenous Youth and Families” 9. Autobiographical Narrative Inquiries: Cindy Swanson’s “Unbundling Stories” 10. Unpacking “Unbundling Stories: Encountering Tensions between the Familial and School Curriculum-Making Worlds” 11. Narrating Relational Ethics throughout the Inquiry and Beyond 12. Research Texts: Revisiting the Justifications for the Inquiry 13. A Reflective Turn on Narrative Inquiry
