Narrative Research

What do advocates of narrative analysis prefer to study?

• The extent to which analytic induction can be value-free

• The iterative process of grounded

• The ethical implications of conducting a secondary analysis of qualitative data

• The ways in which people use stories to make sense of events in their lives

What is narrative analysis?

• A literary approach to documents

• An approach that is sensitive to questions that concern how people choose to sequence and represent people and events

• A form of thematic analysis

• A method of improving the quality of interview material

How did narrative research develop?

• To examine what draws nursing to this method and why nurses think they may be good at it

• is the study of social interaction and culture

• 1990 Clandinin and Connelly first overview of narrative research in education

• Barney Glaser and Anselm Strauss collaboration in research on dying hospital patients led them to write Awareness of Dying in 1965

Which of the following is not a type of narrative research?

• Autobiographies

• Lived experience

• Biographies

• Life Stories and Histories

This is not the key characteristic of narrative research.

• Focus on the experiences of individuals

• Concerned with the chronology of an individual’s experiences

• One that relates to an empirical instance or substantive topic area

• Focus on the construction of life stories based on data collected through active interviews