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
- Identify study purpose & phenomenon explored
- Select an individual
- Present initial questions
- Describe researcher's role (entry to site, reciprocity, ethics)
- Describe data collection method (active interviewing)
- Describe analysis & interpretation of data
- Construct narrative & validate accuracy of story
- 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
- Focus on experience of individuals
- Concerned with chronology of experience
- Focus on constructing story based on active interview data
- Uses retelling to construct narrative
- Incorporates context & place into story
- 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)