Abstract
People telling stories about their life experiences has rapidly gained legitimacy in educational research. This article presents seven elements of narrative research that represent the aspects of a narrative study and the criteria that might be used to assess the quality of a narrative project. The article focuses on one phase in narrative data analysis: ”restorying” or “retelling.” By highlighting restorying narrative, researchers can see how an illustrative data set, a science story told by fourth graders about their experiences in their elementary classroom, was applied to two analysis approaches. A comparison of the two narrative approaches, problem-solution and three-dimensional space, shows several common features and distinctions. As narrative researchers decide which approach to use, they might consider whether the story they wish to report is a broader wholistic sketch of the three-dimensional approach or a narrower linear structure of the problem-solution approach.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 329-347 |
Number of pages | 19 |
Journal | Qualitative Inquiry |
Volume | 8 |
Issue number | 3 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Jun 2002 |
Externally published | Yes |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Anthropology
- Social Sciences (miscellaneous)