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Narrative Inquiry
A Dynamic Approach

  • Colette Daiute - City University of New York, The Graduate Center, City University of New York


October 2013 | 320 pages | SAGE Publications, Inc
Narrative Inquiry provides both a new theoretical orientation and a set of practical techniques that students and experienced researchers can use to conduct narrative research. Explaining the principles of what she terms “dynamic narrating,” author Colette Daiute provides an approach to narrative inquiry that builds on practices of daily life where we use storytelling to connect with other people, deal with social structures, make sense of surrounding events, and craft our own way of fitting in with various contexts. Throughout the book, Daiute illustrates and applies narrative inquiry with a wide variety of examples, practical activities, charts, suggestions for interpreting analyses, and tips on writing up results. Narrative Inquiry integrates cultural-historical activity, discourse theories (including critical discourse theory and conversation analysis), and interdisciplinary research on narrative as applied to a range of research projects in different cultural settings.  

 

 
Chapter 1: The Appeal of Narrative in Research
 
Chapter 2: Designing Dynamic Narrative Research
 
Chapter 3: Values Analysis
 
Chapter 4: Plot Analysis
 
Chapter 5: Significance Analysis
 
Chapter 6: Character Mapping and Time Analysis
 
Chapter 7: Outcomes of Narrative Inquiry

This book offers the reader layered explanations of the processes and techniques involved in narrative inquiry with a new level of specificity that does not reduce the data analysis process to a formulaic activity, but rather provides the essential scaffolding needed to advance a more sophisticated analysis. It is well-organized conceptually, clearly written, and accessible.

Thalia M. Mulvihill
Ball State University

Daiute brings a lot of clarity to what has been a “fuzzy” field of inquiry. The many examples from her personal research connect the strategies she offers to actual studies. I recommend this text to other scholars working in narrative inquiry for their classes and/or guidance of their own research.

Mary Louise Gomez
University of Wisconsin-Madison

Recommended for doctoral students

Ellen Cohn
[DEPARTMENT NOT SPECIFIED], Boston University
June 5, 2015

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Chapter 1


Colette Daiute

Colette Daiute, Professor of Psychology at the Graduate Center, City University and teaches courses on theory, research, and methods in the human sciences. She has conducted research in diverse settings, including community centers, educational institutions, human rights organizations, television and computer technology environments, and informal community gatherings. The author of Human Development and Political Violence (Cambridge University Press), Narrative Inquiry: A Dynamic Approach (SAGE) and co-editor/author of International Perspectives on Youth Conflict and Development (Oxford University Press), and Narrative Analysis:... More About Author

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