Writing 5 : Summary of Journal 8

I want to share the summary of journal that i have read. The journal that i have read is titled Teaching with passion: A narrative inquiry into elementary teachers’ identity development, personal and professional knowledge, and love of teaching, but we are still focused on narrative inquiry. Narrative inquiry is first used by Clandinin and Connelly. Clandinin and Connelly (1995) provide their perspective from social science perspective and their interest in personal experience. They propose narrative and storytelling as an alternative mode of inquiry. They argued that narrative inqury as a useful research method. According to Clandinin and Connelly (1995) narrative inquiry focuses on human experience and has a holistic quality, it is a way of characterizing the phenomena of human experience. From the argument we know that narrative inquiry has focus on human experience and also the way to characterize its phenomena. Clandinin and Connely (1999) say that narrative is the study of how humans make meaning of experiences by endlessly telling and retelling stories about themselves that both refigure the past and create purpose in the future. These telling and retelling explain practicable experiences of the past and create hopes in the future and offer the understanding of knowledge formation. Narrative inquiry is viable research method for education (Clandinin and Connely, 1988). Not only have they written about the importance of shared experiences as a system of finding meaning for curriculum, also they used narrative inquiry to perform several investigations into the lives of teachers. From their concerning teachers and curriculum to the development of teacher identities as they are constructed in the classroom, they proved that narrative inquiry is a useful research tool for education as well. Clandinin and Connelly also provide guidance and examples of how to gather, document, and analyze those stories in order to find embedded knowledge concerning teacher identity.

My opinion that narrative inquiry as attached before related to human experience and its way to characterize the phenomena of human experience, also how humans make meaning of experience through telling and retelling stories of the past and hopes in the future. In education, narrative is useful research tool for education because of concerning teachers lives, identities, and curriculum.            

Reference:

Aimar, E ., L . (2006). Teaching with passion:A narrative inquiry into elementary teachers’ identity development, personal and professional knowledge, and love of teaching. Electronic Theses & Dissertations. 492.