METHODS OF COLLECTING NARRATIVE DATA

DEFINITION

PURPOSE

PROCESS

TECHNIQUES

TYPES

KEY CHARACTERISTICS

  • increase understanding of the central issues related to teaching and learning
  • description of lives
  • collection of stories & experiences
  • discussion of the meanings of stories & experiences
  1. Identify study purpose & phenomenon explored
  1. Select an individual
  1. Present initial questions
  1. Describe researcher's role (entry to site, reciprocity, ethics)
  1. Describe data collection method (active interviewing)
  1. Describe analysis & interpretation of data
  1. Construct narrative & validate accuracy of story
  1. Complete the writing of narrative account

provide objective to study

usually 1, based on experience

collecting stories, record & obtain evidence

restory/retell

collab with participant, present evidence

Based on 5 characteristics (author, scope, source, theory/framework, amount of elements included) of story

Examples: autobiography, biography, personal accounts, personal documents, ethnobiohraphy, life memories

  1. Focus on experience of individuals
  1. Concerned with chronology of experience
  1. Focus on constructing story based on active interview data
  1. Uses retelling to construct narrative
  1. Incorporates context & place into story
  1. Reflects the collab between researcher and participant

Data collection

Perspectives

  • restorying
  • oral history
  • memorabilia
  • story telling
  • letter writing
  • (auto)biography
  • narrative analysis (story is outcome)
  • analysis of narrative (theme is outcome)