Afterword: Reflections on Narrative Inquiries into Teacher Education Identity Making
Narrative Inquirers in the Midst of Meaning-making: Interpretive Acts of Teacher Educators
ISBN: 978-1-78052-924-0, eISBN: 978-1-78052-925-7
Publication date: 25 July 2012
Abstract
Arguments for the development and use of narrative inquiry come out of a view of human experience in which humans, individually and socially, lead storied lives. People shape their daily lives by stories of who they and others are and as they interpret their past in terms of these stories. Story, in the current idiom, is a portal through which a person enters the world and by which his or her experience of the world is interpreted and made personally meaningful. Viewed this way, narrative is the phenomena studied in inquiry. Narrative inquiry, the study of experience as story, then, is first and foremost a way of thinking about experience. Narrative inquiry as methodology entails a view of the phenomena. To use narrative inquiry methodology is to adopt a particular view of experience as phenomena under study. (Connelly & Clandinin, 2006, p. 377)
Citation
Jean Clandinin, D. (2012), "Afterword: Reflections on Narrative Inquiries into Teacher Education Identity Making", Chan, E., Keyes, D. and Ross, V. (Ed.) Narrative Inquirers in the Midst of Meaning-making: Interpretive Acts of Teacher Educators (Advances in Research on Teaching, Vol. 16), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 143-148. https://doi.org/10.1108/S1479-3687(2012)00000160011
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
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