Ch. 4-5 Qualitative Approaches To Inquiry

Question 1

What are different ways to describe “narrative” in narrative research?

Answer 1

1. the phenomenon being studied, such as a narrative of illness or
2. method used in a study, such as the procedures of analyzing stories told

Question 2

How can a narrative qualitative design be described?

Answer 2

spoken or written text giving an account of an event/action or series of events/actions, chronologically connected

Question 3

What are the procedures for implementing narrative research?

Answer 3

1. studying one or two individuals
2. gathering data through the collection of their stories
3. reporting individual experiences
4. chronologically ordering the meaning of those experiences

Question 4

What are 4 Features of Narrative Studies?

Answer 4

1. Researchers collect stories from individuals
2. Narrative stories tell individual experiences and may shed light on their identities
3. Stories occur within specific places or situations
4. Stories gathered through many different forms of data

Question 5

What are 3 other Features of Narrative Studies?

Answer 5

1. Stories are analyzed using varied strategies
2. Stories are shaped into a chronology
3. Stories often contain turning points

Question 6

What are ways that narrative stories can be analyzed?

Answer 6

Analysis made by:

1. what was said (thematically)
2. the nature of the telling of the story (structural)
3. who the story is directed toward (dialogic/performance)
4. using visual analysis of images or interpreting images alongside words

Question 7

What are OTHER ways that narrative stories can be analyzed?

Answer 7

Focus on values, plot, significance, or character mapping and time

Question 8

Narrative studies can be differentiated along two different lines:

Answer 8

1. data analysis strategy used

2. types of narratives

Question 9

Riessman (2008) conveys three types of approaches used to analyze narrative stories:

Answer 9

1. thematic analysis- identifies themes “told” by a participant
2. structural analysis-meaning shifts to the “telling” and the story can be cast during a conversation in comic terms, tragedy, satire, romance
3. dialogic or performance analysis-focus to how the story is produced

Question 10

What are 4 types of narratives for guiding the collection of stories?

Answer 10

1. Biographical study
2. Auto ethnography-subject records own story
3. Life history
4. Oral history (testimonios)

Question 11

What is the first question to ask for all types of qualitative research methods (when choosing one)?

Answer 11

Determine if the research problem or question best fits that research method.

Question 12

Procedure 2 for Conducting Narrative Research

Answer 12

1. Select one or more individuals who have stories or life experiences to tell
2. spend considerable time gathering their stories through multiples types of information.

Question 13

Procedure 3 for Conducting Narrative Research

Answer 13

Consider how data collection and recording can take different shapes:

1. researcher as a listener or a questioner
2. interaction between researcher and participant

Question 14

Procedure 4 for Conducting Narrative Research

Answer 14

Embed information about the context of these stories into data collection, analysis, and writing.

Question 15

Procedure 5 for Conducting Narrative Research

Answer 15

Analyze the participants’ stories using the process of reorganizing the stories into some general type of framework called restorying.

Question 16

The plot, or story line, may also include Clandinin and Connelly’s (2000) three-dimensional narrative inquiry space:

Answer 16

1. the personal and social (the interaction)
2. the past, present, and future (continuity)
3. the place (situation)

Question 17

What might the the qualitative data analysis of a narrative consist of?

Answer 17

1. description of both the story and themes that emerge from it
2. deconstruction of the stories, analytic strategies such as exposing dichotomies, examining silences, attending to disruptions and contradictions.
3. Id. Themes or categories

Question 18

Procedure 6 for Conducting Narrative Research

Answer 18

Embed a collaborative approach in the collection and telling of stories.
A. Researcher and participant will learn and be changed by experience.
B. They negotiate the meaning of the stories, adding a validation check to the analysis
C. within the story may be epiphanies in which story line changes direction dramatically.

Question 19

Describe Procedure 7-Present the story in written form:

Answer 19

1. introduction to familiarize the reader with participant(s) and purpose for the story
2. research procedures to provide rationale for use of a narrative and details about data collection and analysis
3. telling of the story to theorize about participant lives, with narrative segments
4. patterns of meaning, epiphanies, themes
5. final interpretation of the meaning of the story