Writig 5 : Summary of Journal 9

I want to share the summary of journal that i read. The journal that i have read titled navigating sites for narrative inquiry. As we know that narrative inquiry was first used by Clandinin and Connelly (1990) in the educational research field. some people thinking that narrative inquiry means that telling and retelling stories then just listen to the stories. According to Clandinin (2006), Craig (1992), Olson (1993), Paokong & Rosiek (2003), and Polkinghorne (1988) some see narrative inquiry as “just telling stories” for us, and for many others, but actually narrative inquiry is much more than telling stories. Actually narrative inquiry has developed in many disciplines and has been used in many studies such as community (Huber & Whelan, 2001), nursing (Barton, 2006), anthropology (Bateson, 1994), occupational therapy (Mattingly, 2006), cross-cultural studies (Andrews, 2006) and still many more and the field of narrative inquiry is still developing. In the Handbook of narrative inquiry: mapping a methodology (Clandinin, 2006) offers helpful guide to methodological undertakings and lays out helpful distinctions within the field of narrative inquiry. According to Clandinin & Connelly (2006, p. 479) they offered three commonplaces: temporality, sociality, and place to undertake in narrative inquiry. To consider in designing, living out, and representing narrative inquiry there are some elements such as justification, the need to name phenomenon, consider and describe the methods used to study phenomenon, to be described in research texts, positioning narrative inquirers, uniqueness of each study, ethical considerations, the process of representation and the kinds of research text.

In my opinion is that many people think that narrative inquiry is about telling and retelling stories of people’s experiences then listen to it, but narrative inquiry goes beyond just telling and retelling stories and becomes helpful behind it. narrative inquiry has developed in many disciplines and has been used in many fields and studies then still developing. In addition, to carry out narrative inquiry successfully there are three commonplaces that should be considered.

Reference:

Clandinin, D. J. , Pushor, D. , Orr, A. M. (2007). Navigating sites for narrative inquiry. Journal of Teacher Education, 58, 21-35.