Writing 5 : Summary of Journal 7

I am going to talk about the summary of journal that i have read. The topic is narrative inquiry, the book that i have read is about using narrative inquiry as a research method. Narrative inquiry is first used by the Canadian researchers Connely and Clandinin (1990). Narrative inquiry is related to human experience and personal stories. Narrative has depicted experience and endeavours of human, narrative records human experience through the construction and reconstruction of personal stories. Stories are constantly restructured in the light, narrative illustrated temporal notion of experience, recognising that one’s understanding of people and event changes. According to Carr (1986) narrative is not associated with short-term elementary experiences and actions, but pertains to longer-term or larger-scale sequences of actions, experiences, and human actions. Actions, life and hisorical existence are structured narratively, and the concept of narrative is the way of experiencing, acting, and living whatever as individual or communities. Narrative is the way of being and dealing with the time. Narrative inquiry is set in human stories, it provides researchers with a rich framework through which they can investigate the ways human experience the world depicted through their stories. According to Bell (2002), narrative inquiry rests on the assumption that we as human beings make sense of random experience by the imposition of story structures on them. Narrative is not an objective reconstruction of life, it is a rendition of how life is perceived. Narrative inquiry attempts to capture the whole story. It studies problems as forms as storytelling involving characters with both personal and social stories.       

The conclusion is that Narrative inquiry is useful as a research method. Narrative inquiry is about storytelling of human experience and personal stories. Narrative inquiry has gained momentum in practice and research in a growing number of disciplines. As a research method, narrative inquiry is important method

                                

Reference:

Webster, L ., & Mertova, P . (2007). Using narrative inquiry as a research method: an introduction to using critical event narrative analysis in research on learning and teaching (pp. 1-7). Madison Ave, NY: Routledge.