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.

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.

Writing 5 : Summary of Journal 6

Okay, i am going to talk about Narrative Inquiry. Just like the previous, the journal that i have read is discussing about narrative inquiry. Narrative inquiry is important for research, not only in research field, in education and so on. Narrative inquiry is possibly looking for connection or guidance, for possibilities to retell and relive their stories with new hope and possibility ( Clandinin & Connelly, 2009). The function of narrative inquiry looks for connection for the stories, then retell the story with new hopes and new possibilities. Many stories we hear connect with our experience as human beings. We often share our experience, fraught with humor, excitement, and sometimes anger. According to Clandinin & Conelly (2000, p. xxii) people’s lives and how they are composed and lived out is what is of interest. We social scientists are gossips on a grand scale, interested in observing, participating with, thinking about, saying and writing the doings and goings-on of our fellow humans. Narrative inquirers are interested in these stories and the lived experience of the storytellers. Within a narrative inquiry context, we engage in narratives to tell and listen to stories of lived experiences and retell our combined narratives emphasizing resonance and meaning (Conle, 1996).

In my opinion that narrative inquiry is about tell and retell the stories of lived experiences of someone. We hear many lived stories of other people and connect with our experiences. We retell the stories with new hopes and new possibilities in the future  

Reference:

Reschny, S. M. (2016). A narrative inquiry into parents’ experiences with teens with substance use issues: Where are the schools in their stories ?. (pp28-39). University of Saskatchewan, Canada

Writing 5 : Summary of Journal 5

Now i am talking about the article that i have read, the article is about narrative inquiry. Narrative inquiry is a story or a collection of stories. Doing narrative inquiry means involving eliciting and documenting the narrative. Bruner (1990) said that narrative inquiry is based on the premise that we understand or make sense of our lives through narrative. Narrative inquiry is conducive to documenting the changing conditions of lives and the impact these new conditions can have over time on all aspects of an individual’s life, including language learning. We cannot deny that narrative inquiry has impacts in people’s lives and also in other certain fields. There are many benefits to this type of research, the most important is the variety of insights narrative. Narrative inquiry has been used in the field of applied linguistics to explore motivation, identity, multilingualism, learning strategies, language loss, autonomy and self-directed learning. Narrative inquiry can yield practical pedagogical information. According to Cole & Knowles (2001), just as there are many approaches to narrative inquiry, there are many ways to do life history research. So, to collect the data there are many ways to be considered such as develop research design, prepare interview questions, conduct a pilot study, select participants, establish a rapport with the participant, conduct and transcribe the interviews.

So, my opinion about narrative inquiry, just like previously that narrative inquiry is impactful in every individual’s life as well as some certain fields. Somehow, narrative inquiry is important for researchers and also for everyone who wants to conduct this because narrative inquiry involves stories of individual experiences.

Reference:

Murray, G. (2009). Narrative inquiry. Qualitative inquiry in applied linguistics (pp. 45-65). Okayama University, Palgrave Macmillan

Writing 5 : Summary of Journal 4

To this section i want to talk the journal that i have read about narrative inquiry. Narrative inquiry itself is rooted in the work of Connely and Clandinin (1988) who define narrative inquiry as “the study of how humans make meaning of experience by endlessly telling and retelling stories about themselves that both refigure the past and create purpose in the future. Narrative inquiry encompasses the stories that people tell, as well as the collection, desccription, and interpretation of those stories, producing “narrative of experience” ( Connely & Clandinin, 1990, p.2). in education, narrative inquiry in english education can be powerful pedagogical tool as in addition that narratives have characters who are a part of the events, as well as narrators who construct the story.

In narrative inquiry, students are characters in their narratives, they are a part of the events and experiences about which they write. Students need opprtunities, and encouragement to become “narrators” that examine their perspectives and attittudes in order to make sense of those aspects of their narratives. When engaged in narrative inquiry, guiding students toward a stance of constructed knowing seems logical, if not necessary, and requires a pedagogy that blends their past experience. As prospective teacher engage in narrative inquiry, they may be allowed to return in a sense, to a position of subjective knowing. At the least, they know that their subjective knowledge is powerful tool of learning.

In my opinion, that narrative inquiry is important in english education because it gives challenge in education. Narrative inquiry reflects a vision of teaching and leads to the construction of knowledge, particularly knowledge of self, knowledge of others, and concept knowledge of teaching. So it gives both teachers and students benefit in education.         

Reference:

Knight, S. D. (2009). The power of students”stories: Narrative inquiry in English education. Journal of language and literacy education [ online ], 5(1), 48-58.