daily lives are shaped by stories of who we and others are

story is the lens through which we shape the world

story is the way in which we experience the world as personally meaningful

Narrative as possibility for ongoing professional development?

experience is a matter of people in relation contextually and temporally

narrative inquiry is people in relation studying with people in relation

people's lives are composed over time, life stories and lived and told, retold, relived

engaging means seeing possibilities for growth and change

listening and seeing leads to educational consequences for the living bodies connected to schools, including faculty and universities

creates spaces, gaps which allow for change

AR and Narrative enable practitioner researchers to share their stories of action to improve learning

Reflecting on action = learning which = future learning and action, = accountability for their actions

reliving retold stories in new capacities for change

claim to knowledge - when we say we have learned something or now believe something different to be true

story constellations change in landscapes of researchers and participants of narrative inquiry

make visible the complexities that share school landscapes and influence the nature of educators' experiences

enable multifaceted studies to be framed in a way that takes into account multiple clusters of stories by many multiple tellers

broad shifts in school landscapes are constructed and reconstructed alongside individual and collective accounts of change

teacher identity formation should be in all discussions on teaching and learning

critical and creative method for for reflective inquiry

use of narratives is fundamental to the process and reporting of AR (Walker, 2007)

cycles of action and learning to generate knowledge through mutual understanding, develop & enact shared meaning

collaborative inquiry with leaders is relevant to both ind. and organizational development w emphasis on experiential knowledge, community development and meaningful change

personal narratives are universal, not only of the intellectual

awareness of how our own place in the world plays a part in our interpretations and shapes the meanings we derive

there is structure to narrative - social, political, and historical conditions

narrative that can capture the complexity of human action

Narratives are social texts and the self is constructed in and thorough narrative

there is a central relationship between evidence, the real and the truthfulness of the narrative

common ontological and epistemological commitments can be shared between Narrative Inquiry and Action Research

develop awareness of how place influences our interpretation of the world and shapes the meaning we derive

AR and Narratives have been accused of limitations in methodological and theoretical groundings (Kajamaa, 2012)

context specific and context bound data and data analysis (Kajamaa, 2012)

narrative and action research can both tell the stories of others (Heikknen, Huttunen, & Syrjala, 2007)