A Return to the Gold Standard? Questioning the Future of Narrative Construction as Educational Research

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2385151
AutoresTom Barone (Arizona State University, Tempe)
Año2007
Volumen13
Número4
Páginas454-470
Fecha de publicación2007-05-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaQualitative Inquiry (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1077-8004 • E-ISSN: 1552-7565
EditorialSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/1077800406297667
OpenAlexW2079932723
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas43
Referencias citadas21

Narrative construction is an approach to social research in which data are configured into any of a variety of diachronic, or storied, formats. Having recently gained popularity, this approach is now in danger of marginalization (along with other qualitative and quantitative forms of social research) as a result of politically charged attempts to reinstitute a narrow methodological orthodoxy. In an attempt to prompt discussion about the future of this inquiry approach, the author asks questions that highlight recurring issues within ongoing conversations among educational researchers who advocate and/or engage in the construction of narratives. These questions relate to the political character of stories, fictionalization, audience, modalities of representation, quality control, research purpose, and strategies for maintaining and enlarging the space for narrative construction as a qualitative research approach within an era of political retrogression

Aesthetics · Educational research · Epistemology · Literature · Modalities · Narrative · Narrative inquiry · Orthodoxy · Political science · Politics · Popularity · Qualitative research · Quality (philosophy · Representation (politics · Social science · Sociology · Variety (cybernetics · Computer Science · Critical Race Theory in Education · Educator Training and Historical Pedagogy · History · Law · Psychology · Social Psychology · Teacher Education and Leadership Studies