Chapter I: What is “Narrative Inquiry?”
Chapter Overview
In this unit, we’ll explore the basics of narrative inquiry.
Chapter Materials
- Task: A Few of Your Favorite Things
- Task: Educational Favorites
- What is “narrative inquiry”?
- How objective should the researcher be?
- Read: Amy Tan-“Mother Tongue”
- Discussion: “Mother Tongue”
- Task: Write a Story of Learning
- Task: Story Exploration
- Discuss the Stories of Learning
- What issues emerged in the school stories?
- What advantages come from exploring these issues through story?
- If you were to explore these issues through further narrative inquiry research, what would you want to ask/think about?
- What complexities arise from trying to tell these stories?
- Read: Mike Rose-“Our Schools and Our Children” (Chapter 1 of Lives on the Boundary)
- Task: Write an Object Story
- Read: Clandinin and Connelley-Narrative Inquiry