When to use it?
Key Characteristics
Key Characteristics 2
Steps in Conducting Narrative Research
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In this type of research, researchers describe the lives of individuals, collect and tell stories about people's lives, and write narratives of individual experiences.

What is Narrative research design?

100

How do narrative researchers typically gather their data (stories) told by individuals?

What are interviews or informal conversations?

100

Described In detail, the place where the story physically occurs.

What is context or setting?

100

To begin narrative research, one must identify this...

What is a phenomenon (to explore)?

200

Narrative research design focuses on THIS rather than the broader picture of cultural norms....as in ethnography, or in abstract theories...as in grounded theory.

What is individual stories?

200

In addition to the study of an individual, the researcher is most interested in this…

What is exploring the experiences of that individual?

200

A time sequence of events helps readers understand and follow the research

What is Chronology of the Experiences?

200

Gathering documents such as memos or official correspondence about the individual is an example of this…

What are field texts?

300

Which educators provided the first overview of narrative research for the field of education?

Who are D. Jean Clandinin and Michael Connelly?

300

A first-person oral telling or retelling of an individual.

What is a story in narrative research?

300

How large does your sample size have to be when conducting a narrative inquiry?

The sample can be small.

300

You use this so that readers will better understand the story told by the participant if it's sequenced in a logical order.

What is restorying?

400

Most appropriate research topics 

What is social 

personal

or cultural?

400

Journals or letters are a form used to collect stories. These are examples of what?

What are field texts or field notes?

400

True or False:

A narrative inquiry involves conducting a structured interview

False.

400

Member checking and triangulating among data sources are examples of this…

What is validating?

500

Narrative Inquiry is used when the researcher wants to understand an experience instead of formulating a ... ?

What is a scientific explanation?

500

The process the researcher uses when providing a chronological sequence and causal link among ideas.

What is restorying?

500

True or False: 

In Narrative Inquiry, stories may be captured through interviews, transcribed, and analyzed for patterns and themes, which helps us to learn about both specific individuals and more broadly- society and culture.

True.

500

How does the researcher refer to himself/herself in the narrative report?

What is first person?