12 Questions
What is a key defining feature of narrative research according to the text?
Analyzing participant stories thematically or structurally
What is the primary goal of conducting an autoethnography according to the text?
To uncover the larger cultural meaning behind an individual's experience
What is a key challenge of conducting narrative research according to the text?
Clearly understanding the participant's life context within multiple dimensions
What type of research is narrative research most closely related to according to the text?
Qualitative research
What is a key feature of the 'collaborative relationships' in narrative research according to the text?
The researcher and participant co-construct the participant's story
What is a key aspect of the 'temporality' in narrative research according to the text?
Narratives must include descriptions of the participant's past, present, and future
What is the primary focus of phenomenological research?
Subjective aspects of human experience
What is the role of the researcher in phenomenological research?
To understand the inner world of the participant
What is the philosophical foundation of phenomenological research?
Phenomenology and the search for wisdom
What is the purpose of the 'epoche' or 'bracketing' in transcendental or psychological phenomenology?
To achieve a fresh perspective on the phenomenon
What is the key difference between hermeneutical phenomenology and transcendental or psychological phenomenology?
Hermeneutical phenomenology involves interpreting texts, while transcendental phenomenology involves bracketing the researcher's own biases
What is the ultimate goal of phenomenological research?
To gain a deeper understanding of the essence of human experience
Study Notes
Narrative Research
- Definition: collects stories from individuals to understand their experiences and identities
- Layers: story, interpretation of participant, and interpretation of researcher
- Focuses on phenomenon or method, with a chronological connection
- Postmodern orientation, human development, psychology, sociology, and quantitative/qualitative approaches
- Defining features:
- Collects stories, which may be collaborative or co-constructed
- Tells individual experiences and identities
- Stories occur within specific places or situations, with temporality being important
- Uses various forms of data, analyzed thematically, dialogically, structurally, or using visual analysis
- Shapes into a chronology, with turning points (tensions or interruptions)
- Types:
- Biographical study
- Autoethnography (larger cultural meaning)
- Life history (portrays individual's entire life)
- Oral history (from one or several people, with testimonies)
- Procedures:
- Determine suitability of design
- Select one or more participants
- Consider shape of data collection/recording
- Collect information about context
- Analyze participant's stories
- Collaborate with participants
- Present narrative in written form
- Collaborative relationships: active involvement of the participant, with epiphanies (turning points, disruptions in the story)
- Challenges:
- Clearly understanding participant's life context within social, familial, linguistic, institutional dimensions
- Looking for multilayered context of a life
- Reflecting on own personal/political background
- Considering who owns the story
Phenomenological Research
- Definition: focuses on understanding human experiences from the perspective of individuals experiencing them
- Focuses on understanding human existence, providing a deeper understanding of how individuals perceive and make sense of their world
- Qualitative research approach that seeks to understand and describe the universal essence of a phenomenon
- Studies lived experiences to gain deeper insights into how people understand those experiences
- Assumptions: people use a universal structure or essence to make sense of their experience
- Defining features:
- Single concept or idea
- Heterogenous group of participants
- Philosophical discussion
- Researcher brackets self
- Data collection: typically interviews
- Data analysis: narrowing units to broader meaning units, seeking essence of what and how experiences
- Types:
- Hermeneutical phenomenology (lived experience interpreting texts of life)
- Transcendental or psychological phenomenology (epoche or bracketing for fresh perspective)
- Philosophical component: role of philosophy as search for wisdom, suspending judgment about what is real until founded, intentionality of consciousness, and refusing subject-object dichotomy
Explore the concepts of narrative research in qualitative inquiry and research design, focusing on defining features such as collecting stories, interpreting participant and researcher perspectives, and chronological connections. Dive into the origins, layers, and defining features of narrative research as outlined by Creswell and Poth.
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