Engaging in Narrative Inquiry Developing Qualitative Inquiry Series

Narrative inquiry examines human lives through the lens of a narrative, honoring lived experience as a source of important knowledge and understanding. In this concise volume, D. Jean Clandinin, one of the pioneers in using narrative as research, updates her classic formulation on narrative inquiry (with F. Michael Connelly), clarifying, extending and refining the method based on an additional decade of work. A valuable feature is the inclusion of several exemplary cases with the author?s critique and analysis of the work. The rise of interest in narrative inquiry in recent years makes this is an essential guide for researchers and an excellent text for graduate courses in qualitative inquiry.

Introduction; Chapter 1 Living, Telling, and Retelling: Processes of Narrative Inquiry; Chapter 2 Designing and Living Out a Narrative Inquiry; Chapter 3 Narrative Beginnings: A Lunchtime Conversation with Dean; Chapter 4 Unpacking “Narrative Beginnings: A Lunchtime Conversation with Dean”; Chapter 5 Beginning with Telling Stories: Andrew’s Stories of Playing Basketball; Chapter 6 Unpacking “Beginning with Telling Stories: Andrew’s Stories of Playing Basketball”; Chapter 7 Beginning with Living Stories: Visiting the “Fort”; Chapter 8 Unpacking “Beginning with Living Stories: Visiting the ‘Fort’”; Chapter 9 Autobiographical Narrative Inquiries: Stepping Stone or Saving Story?; Chapter 10 Unpacking “Autobiographical Narrative Inquiries: Stepping Stone or Saving Story?”; Chapter 11 Narrating Relational Ethics throughout the Inquiry and Beyond; Chapter 12 Research Texts: Revisiting the Justifications for the Inquiry; afterword A Reflective Turn on Narrative Inquiry;

D. Jean Clandinin