Composing Storied Ground: Four Generations of Narrative Inquiry

Autor/inn/en	Schaafsma, David; Pagnucci, Gian; Wallace, Rob; Stock, Patricia Lambert
Titel	Composing Storied Ground: Four Generations of Narrative Inquiry
Quelle	In: English Education, 39 (2007) 4, S.282-305 (24 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0007-8204
Schlagwörter	Research Methodology; Story Telling; Tales; Personal Narratives; English Instruction; Writing Instruction; Discourse Analysis; Graduate Study; Scholarship; Ethnography; Doctoral Dissertations + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Research method; Forschungsmethode; Erzählung; Erlebniserzählung; English langauage lessons; Englischunterricht; Schreibunterricht; Diskursanalyse; Aufbaustudium; Graduiertenstudium; Hauptstudium; Scholarships; Stipendium; Ethnografie; Doctoral dissertation; Doctoral thesis; Doctoral theses; Dissertationsschrift
Abstract	Narrative inquiry in English education comes in many shapes and forms--tales of classrooms and communities, didactic argu-stories, postmodern pastiches, open tales with O. Henry endings--but the heart of the enterprise is research in the form of story or, in other words, exploring the world by telling a story about it. In many such tales, all of the traditional dimensions of scholarly research, including a review of relevant literature and a discussion of methodology, get "storied," to become part of the larger story. Narrative inquiry, which has been a recognized research methodology for at least the past twenty-five years in fields ranging from anthropology to psychology to English education and writing studies, might be explained by the fact that practitioners of narrative inquiry simply cannot let go of telling stories. In this article, the authors present a series of interconnected narratives that provide a glimpse into the worlds of practitioners of narrative inquiry at different stages of their careers and in the development of narrative inquiry as a methodology in English education and writing studies over the past twenty-five years. (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10