Please post your question, quote, and fact for chapter 16 here. Also, please respond to at least two of your peers' posts and answer my five questions.
Questions:
1.) Describe the major types of narrative research and when you would use a narrative research design.
2.) Descibe the aspects of a "story" and what kinds of data is used in narrative research.
3.) Why would you use themes in narrative research?
4.) Describe the steps for conducting narrative research and issues the researcher will face when using this design.
5.)List the criteria for evaluating a narrative study.
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Question: I think serving as a volunteer in a classroom is a great way of reciprocating, but how much time should you volunteer?
ReplyDeleteQuote: "Telling stories is a natural part of life, and individuals all have stories about their experiences to tell others."
Fact: Any story told has an element of truth in it.
1. A biography is a form of narrative study in which the researcher writes and records the experiences of another person's life. In an autobiography, the individual who is the subject of the study writes the account. A life history is a narrative story of the entire life experiences of a person. A personal experience story is a narrative study of an individual's personal experience found in single or multiple episodes, private situations, or communal folklore broadened the personal experience story to be both personal and social, and conveyed this stance as the essence of the experiences reported about teachers and teaching in schools. Teachers' stories are personal accounts by teachers of their own personal classroom experiences. Other narrative studies focus on students in the classroom. In children's stories, narrative researchers ask the children in classrooms to present orally or in writing their own stories about their leraning experiences. A theoretical lens may be to advocate for Latin Americans using testimonios, reporting the stories of women using a feminist lens or collecting the stories of marginalized individuals. A narrative study may be biographical because researchers write and report it about a participant in a study. This same study may focus on a personal study of a teacher. It may address an event in the life of a teacher, such as a dismissal from a school, resulting in a partial life story, or a personal narrative. You use narrative research when you have individuals willing to tell their stories and you want to report their stories. By conducting narrative studies, researchers establish a close bond with the participants.
ReplyDelete2. A story in narrative research is a first-person oral telling or retelling of an individual. Often these stories have a beginning, a middle, and an end. Similar to basic elements found in good novels, these aspects involve a predicament, conflict, or struggle; a protagonist or character; and a sequence with implied causality during which the predicament is resolved in some fashion. Field texts represent information from different sources collected by researchers in a narrative design. The stories might be autobiographical, with the researcher reflecting on his or her own story and interweaving that story with those of others. Journals are another form used for collecting stories, as are fieldnotes written by either the researcher or the participant. Letters provide useful data. These letters may be written back and forth between participants, research collaborators, or between the researchers and participants. Family stories, photographs, and memory boxes-collections of items that trigger our memories-are other forms used for collecting stories in narrative research.
ReplyDelete3. The identification of themes provides the complexity of a story and adds depth to the insight about understanding individual experiences. Narrative researchers typically present these themes after retelling the story.
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Step 1. Identify a phenomenon to explore that addresses an educational problem
Step 2. Purposefully select an individual from whom you can learn about the phenomenon
Step 3. Collect the story from that individual
Step 4. Restory or retell the individual's story
Step 5. Collaborate with the participant-storyteller
Step 6. Write a story about the participant's experiences
Step 7. Validate the accuracy of the report
Distortion, fear of reprisal, and inability to tell may plague storytellers. Who owns the story, whether the participant's voice is lost in the final narrative report, and whether the researcher gains in the study at the expense of the participant are issues the researcher will face.
5. Use these questions to evaluate your own or someone else's narrative report:
ReplyDelete1. Does the researcher focus on individual experiences?
2. Is there a focus on a single individual or a few individuals?
3. Did the researcher collect the story of an individual's experience?
4.Did the researcher restory the participant's story?
5. In the restorying, was the participant's voice as well as the researcher's voice heard?
6. Did the researcher identify themes that emerged from the story?
7. Did the story include information about place or setting of the individual?
8. Did the story have a temporal, chronological sequence including the past, present, and future?
9 Is there evidence that the researcher collaborated with the participant?
10. Does the story adequately address the purpose and questions of the researcher?
Chapter 16 Questions:
ReplyDelete1.) Describe the major types of narrative research and when you would use a narrative research design.
A) They major types of narrative research are: Autobiographies (when a person is a part of the study writes an account of what happened) or biographies (where the researcher writes the experiences of other people’s lives.) Pretty much all of the forms of narrative research fall under those two categories in one-way or another. You use a narrative research design when you need a literary form of qualitative research. This can be very persuasive. Narrative research is a look at the individual rather than the whole group like in ethnography. (Page 512-514)
2.) Describe the aspects of a "story" and what kinds of data is used in narrative research.
ReplyDeleteA) The aspects of a “story” are:
*Experinces of an individual- Social and personal interactions
*Chronology of experiences- past, present, and future experiences
*Life stories- first person, oral accounts of actions obtained through field texts (data)
*Restorying (or retelling or developing a metastory) from the field texts
*Coding the field texts for Themes and Categories
*Incorporating the context or place into the story or themes
*Collaboration between the researcher and the participants in the study, such as negotiating field texts(Page 517-522… Page 517 Figure 16.2)
3.) Why would you use themes in narrative research?
ReplyDeleteA) “The identification of themes provides the complexity of a story and adds depth to the insight about understanding individual experiences…. Narrative researchers typically present these themes after retelling the story.” (Page 521)
4.) Describe the steps for conducting narrative research and issues the researcher will face when using this design.
A)
1. Identify a phenomenon to explore that address an educational problem.
2. Purposefully select an individual from whom you can learn about the phenomenon.
3.Collect the story for that individual.
4. Restory or retell the individual’s story.
5. Collaborate with the participant-storyteller.
6.Write a story about the participant’s experiences.
7. Validate the accuracy of the report. (Page 523-525)
Some issues that researchers will face when using this design are: making sure that the stories are authentic and not fake, making sure that the data is not distorted, participants may not be able to tell the “real” story, the issue may rise on who owns the story, and lastly making sure that the participant’s voice is not lost in the final narrative report. (Page 522-523)
5.)List the criteria for evaluating a narrative study
ReplyDeleteA)
*Does the researcher focus on individual experiences?
*Is there a focus on a single individual or a few individuals?
*Did the researcher collect the story of an individual’s experience?
*Did the researcher restory the participant’s story?
*In the restorying, was the participant’s voice as well as the researcher’s voice heard?
*Did the researcher identify themes that emerged from the story?
*Did the story include information about place or setting of the individual?
*Did the story have a temporal, chronological sequence including the past, present, and future?
*Is there evidence that the researcher collaborated with the participant?
*Does the story adequately address the purpose and questions of the researcher? (Page 526)
QUESTION: Why do they have so many names for the forms of Narrative Research when they all seem to fall under one of two categories. Biography some one is telling your story or a story of another person, or Autobiography where some one is telling their own story? I feel like it’s just more for us to have to know when it could be so simple. (Page 514)
ReplyDeleteQUOTE: “A theoretical lens in narrative research is a guiding perspective or ideology that provides structure for advocating for groups or individuals and writing the report.” (Page 515)
FACT: In narrative research when it comes to the researcher retelling the participant’s experience it’s not enough to have just the setting, characters, actions, problem, and resolution. The researcher needs the interactions (personal interactions based on the individual’s feelings, hope, reactions, and dispositions.), Continuity (a consideration of the past that is remembered; the present relating to experiences of an event, and the future, looking forward to possible experiences.); and Situation (information about the context, time, and place within a physical setting, with boundaries and characters’ intentions, purposes, and different point of view.) (Page 519-521)
Helen,
ReplyDeleteI love your fact! it's so positive and uplifting! :)
Becky
1. Biographies are the main types of narrative research. Biographies are when the researcher writes about another persons experience and an autobiography is when the researcher writes about their own experiences. You use this type when you have people who are willing to share their stories and you want to report them
ReplyDelete2. A story is a first person oral telling or retelling of an individual. They have a beginning, middle, and end. There needs to predicament, conflict, protagonist and a sequence with a plot in which the predicament is solved.
3. It provides the complexity of a story and adds depth to the insight about understanding individual experiences.
4. Identify a phenomenon, purposefully select an individual from whom you can learn about the phenomenon, collect the story, restory or retell the individual story, collaborate with the participant, write a story about the participant’s experiences, and validate the accuracy of the report.
5. Does the researcher focus on individual experiences, is there a focus on an individual, did the researcher collect the story of an individual’s response, did the researcher restory, did the researcher identify themes, did the story include information on setting, did the story have sequence, is there evidence that the researcher collaborated with the participant, does the story adequately address the purpose.
Question:
How do you keep from getting misinformation when using this type of information?
Quote:
“People live storied lives”
Fact:
Telling stories is a natural part of life, and individuals all have stories about their own experiences to tell others.
Rebecca,
ReplyDeleteI think biography and autobiography are the two main catagories and all the rest are just sub catagories. The sub categaries just define the type of information you are collecting.
Helen,
ReplyDeleteI think how much time you volunteer is on a case by case basis. You volunteer how every much you can comfortable do and the teacher has a need.
1.) Describe the major types of narrative research and when you would use a narrative research design.
ReplyDeleteA:
Narrative reearch is is a qualitative research that decribes people life, and story. Researchers use the design whe they want to represent individual story about something that reearchers study.
2.) Descibe the aspects of a "story" and what kinds of data is used in narrative research.
A:
A story is an narrative data that resarchers get from interviewing participants aout thir life, experiences, and thinking.
Kinds of data is used in narrative research.
1. Biographical.
2. Events in the life time.
3. Theoretical lens.
4. Combination.
3.) Why would you use themes in narrative research?
A:
Researchers use themes to understand the data that they collect in the big picture and catagorize them.
4.) Describe the steps for conducting narrative research and issues the researcher will face when using this design.
A:
1. Identify a phenomenon t explore that addresses an eduational problem.
2. Purposfully select an individual from whom you can learn about the pheomenon.
3. Collect the story from that indvidual.
4. Restory or retell theindividual's story.
5. Collaborate with the participant-storyteller
6. Write a story about the participant's experiences.
7 Validate the accuracy of the report.
The problems that the researches may face whiel they are collecting data is that
1. Th participants may lie.
2. The participant cannot rememberthe story.
3. The participants don't want to tell the story.
4. The permisson to publish the participats' story.
5.)List the criteria for evaluating a narrative study.
A:
1. The research hs high standard of qualitative research.
2. There are specific narrative, the aspect ofpeople rading.
3. Researchers can considr the question in page 526 o evaluate their researches.
Fact, "Ther will have the huge information and some may can not be use in the research."
Quote, " Although distrotion, fear of rprisal, and inability to tell may plague storytellers, narrative researches remind us that stories are "thruths of our experiences" (Riessman, 1993, p. 22) and that any story told has an element of thruth in it."
Question, "How the research can be reliable if the participants donot tell the thruths? Isit the kind of faud?"
In my opinion, some is true that people live can keep the story alive, but some cases cannot because human has limited memory capacity. That i why we have comeputer or diary to remind us the past.
ReplyDeleteBecky,
ReplyDeleteGood question, quote, and fact! The steps in narrative research are like a staircase ascending and I, also, thought the 6 steps of research from chapter 1 were like a staircase leading up to the evaluation of the research.
Jessica,
ReplyDeleteTelling stories makes life interesting and it's a way of passing information, but knowing how much of it is embellished would be difficult.
The major types of narrative research include a biography which is when the researcher writes and records the experiences of another person’s life. Another type is an autobiography when an individual who is the subject of the study writes the account. A life history is a narrative story of the entire life experiences of a person. A personal experience story is the study of an individual’s personal experience found in single or multiple episodes, private situations, or communal folklore. There are also, teacher’s stories which are personal accounts from teachers of their own personal classroom experiences. A narrative research design is used when individuals are willing to tell their stories, and you want to report their stories.
ReplyDelete2. A story is a first person oral telling or retelling of an individual. Stories have a beginning middle and end. Aspects include predicament, conflict, or struggle. A story contains a protagonist or character and a sequence within implied causality during which the predicament is resolved in some fashion. Narrative research collects stories from several data sources to include: field texts which represent information from different sources collected by researchers. Discussions, conversations and interviews are other means of collecting narrative data, however, narrative data may include autobiographical sources, journals or letters. Letters can be between participants, research collaboration, or between the researchers and participants. Family stories, photographs, and memory boxes (collection of items that trigger our memories) are other forms used for collecting stories in narrative research.
3. Themes provide the complexity of the story and adds depth to the insight about under standing the individual’s experiences.
4. The steps for conducting narrative research include: a.) identify a phenomenon to explore that addresses an educational problem. b.) purposefully select an individual from whom you can learn about the phenomenon. c.) collect the story from that individual. d.) restory or retell the individual’s story. e.) collaborate with the participant. f.) write a story about the participant’s experiences. g.) validate the accuracy of the report.
5. The criteria for evaluating a narrative study include: a.) does the researcher focus on individual experiences? b.) did the researcher restory the participant’s story? c.) is there a focus on a single individual or a few individuals? d.) did the researcher identify themes? e.) did the story include information about a place or setting? f.) did the story have chronological sequence? g.) does the story adequately address the purpose? h.) is there evidence that the researcher collaborated with the participant?
Quote: “As in most qualitative studies, the literature plays a minor role.” Pg 527
Fact: The major step in the process of narrative research is for the author to write and present the story of the individual’s experiences.
Question: What is a theatrical lens?
Helen, I agree with your quote, we all have stories to tell and in each story something can be learned.
ReplyDeleteJessica,good question. Misinformation can easily be obtained especially when retelling a story as the facts may be remembered differently than how they actually occurred.
Prueska,
ReplyDeleteIf you have several cases or stories, and you find the common themes, that helps with this bias problem and if they lie too. Also, you might have another researcher or the participants themselves verify what they are telling you. That helps with the validity. Also, if you triangulate the data and use data from multiple sources even with the qualitative research, that helps with this part.
Does that help? Keep up the good work!
Matt,
ReplyDeleteThis is the part of a study where you ground your research in a theory base. Does that make sense? If you are using ethnography, you need to explain the theory behind it and why that method fits your research question(s) and is best for you to use. Does that make sense?
Keep up the good work!
Being avolunteer in the classroom is good , but it is not good enough to gain teaching exprience, in my opinion.
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