Narrative Research in Practice Stories from the Field
This book directly addresses the multiplicity and complexity of narrative research by illustrating a variety of avenues to pursuing and publishing research that falls under the umbrella of narrative work. The chapters are drawn from a wide range of discip
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Narrative Research in Practice Stories from the Field
Narrative Research in Practice
Rachael Dwyer • Ian Davis • elke emerald Editors
Narrative Research in Practice Stories from the Field
Editors Rachael Dwyer Queensland Conservatorium Research Centre Griffith University Brisbane, Australia
Ian Davis Griffith Institute for Educational Research Griffith University Brisbane, Australia
elke emerald Griffith University Brisbane, Australia
ISBN 978-981-10-1577-9 ISBN 978-981-10-1579-3 DOI 10.1007/978-981-10-1579-3
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Preface
The impetus for undertaking this book comes from two sources. Firstly, there was a strong desire to produce something from our collaborations as a narrative research group, something that would provide a resource for other narrative researchers. Secondly, there was a common experience of those within our narrative group of encountering difficulty in navigating the diversity of literature surrounding narrative research. At times, there appear to be contradictions between research that uses similar labels and clearly delineated ‘camps’ or factions of researchers. For many of us, this caused difficulties knowing how to encompass theoretical positions that were in alignment with our desires for our research and the needs of our project. The purpose of this volume is to attempt to look across the entire landscape of narrative methods drawing out significant perspectives and identify the variety of theoretical positions. Some of this work has been started by others (Squire, Andrews and Tamboukou 2008; Pinnegar and Daynes 2007; Clandinin and Murphy 2007; Bamberg 2007), and we draw heavily on their work as we attempt to synthesise their ideas and prese
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