Using Narrative Inquiry as a Research Method An Introduction to Using Critical Event Narrative Analysis in Research on Learning and Teaching

How does the retelling of a critical event in life experience give insight to our understanding of the world around us?Narrative is now a valuable research tool across a wide range of disciplines (from philosophy, education, theology and psychology to economics, medicine, biology and environmental science). Narrative inquiry provides researchers with a rich framework through which they can investigate the ways humans experience the world depicted through their stories.Using Narrative Inquiry as a Research Method is an up-to-date introduction to the topic, demonstrating the value and utility of employing a critical event approach to narrative as a research tool in a wide range of teaching and learning settings. This accessible text describes the theoretical underpinning and gives background to the development of narrative inquiry as a research method. investigates how this method can effectively be applied as a means of research in a range of contexts, including flexible, open and distance learning or workplace learning demonstrates the value and utility of employing narrative as a research tool in a range of teaching and learning settings includes chapters on background, methodology and case studies to illustrate application of narrative inquiry as a research method The authors give background and provide guidance to researchers and practitioners in a range of fields as to how to use a narrative inquiry approach, making this book an invaluable resource for academics, researchers and educational developers in a wide range of Higher Education disciplines as well as for teachers of research methods.Webster, Leonard is the author of 'Using Narrative Inquiry as a Research Method An Introduction to Using Critical Event Narrative Analysis in Research on Learning and Teaching', published 2007 under ISBN 9780415379052 and ISBN 0415379059.