Suchergebnisse

Narratives are clients' spoken thoughts, feelings, ideas, and ideals about their social worlds. In this study narratives are largely client-driven, being facilitated by clinicians' questions and concerns when needed. Narratives that most influence clients' decisionmaking and behavior are deliberately de-constructed and re-constructed through clinical exchanges, to make these narratives more effective and more dependable for clients. Advantages of using objectivity and research orientations in problem-solving throughout clinical exchanges are considered, as well as fact-finding strategies about families, religions or beliefs, social classes, cultures, and societies. Clinicians and clients are encouraged to discuss trends in histories, social systems, and cultures to de-construct false narratives and re-construct more realistic narratives. Best practice narratives guide substantive exchanges between clients and clinicians, and improve the quality of clinical outcomes during and after consultations.

This book review provides a summary of the content of the book "Mobile Work, Mobile Lives: Cultural Accounts of Lived Experiences" and a critical review of the methodological strengths of the articles included in the book. It also points out one structural weakness of the book. The appropriate readership is recommended as well.

Engaging in collaborative inquiry creates a shared authorship in storytelling, but does not ensure that the final report will reflect the plurality of voices that contributed to the narrative. This paper describes how involving respondents in the research design, data analysis, and dissemination of research findings enables researchers to ensure equal representation of perspectives of individuals involved in health research.

The narrative survey is a qualitative research strategy which offers a method for surveying large populations. While the research community relies on several types of qualitative approaches as alternative research responses to the quantitative types, the survey strategy has been the exclusive domain of positivistic-quantitative research. However, if we seek qualitative understandings in relation to many people, each finding expression as a unique narrative within the survey context, we need to develop a narrative-constructivist alternative to the traditional survey. Narrative survey is such a research strategy which follows the narrative-constructivist approach, uses mainly narrative methods of data collection and analysis, and produces a final narrative report. In this aritcle I describe the narrative survey, bring an example of a study project, and compare it to other research strategies of a similar nature: collective case study, case survey and meta-ethnography, and the "conventional" quantitative survey. (Narrative Survey, Data Analysis, Data Collection, Mulitple Population, Narrative-Constructivist Approach)

In diesem Beitrag setze ich mich empirisch und theoretisch mit Erfahrungen auseinander, die ich im Verlauf des Schreibens meiner Doktorarbeit mittels narrativer Methodologien gesammelt habe. Dabei konzentriere ich mich auf Spannungen, die kennzeichnend sind für das akademische Schreiben im Kontext qualitativer Forschung, Spannungen, denen ich im Verlauf des Arbeitens immer wieder ausgesetzt war und mit denen ich gerungen habe. Durch das Schreiben einer auch theoretisch inspirierten Autoethnographie reflektiere ich auf den Raum zwischen Expose und Dissertation, und damit auf die Initiationsreise eines Novizen durch einen konstruierten, in Entstehung befindlichen narrativen Raum, und auf die Beziehung zwischen den Erzählungen über Identität und Veränderung der Rucksacktouristen, die ich untersuchte, und mir selbst. Indem ich dies tue, problematisiere ich zugleich einen Teil des akademischen Übergangsrituals, nämlich das Verfassen einer modernen Dissertation in Zeiten postmodernen Forschens und Schreibens. Meine Auseinandersetzung mit dieser Thematik ist durch die Erfahrung der Reise inspiriert, eine Reise zwischen den berichteten Reiseerfahrungen der von mir Interviewten und meinen eigenen (während des Dissertationschreibens); zwischen "Feld" und "Schreibtisch", zwischen dem positivistischen und dem interpretivativen Paradigma, zwischen dem Expose und der schließlichen Dissertation, zwischen väterlichen und mütterlichen Quellen des Schreibens, und zwischen wissenschaftlichem und literarischem Schreiben. Der Artikel will einen Beitrag zur Erforschung von Subjektivität und Reflexivität innerhalb des wachsenden qualitativen Paradigmas leisten, zur Erforschung von Übergangsritualen in Gemeinschaften und Institutionen, und es geht mir schließlich um die Frage, ob Erzählung das postmoderne, überwältigte und gebrochene Selbst bewahren kann.

AbstractIn this article, we aim to describe and demonstrate the use of a methodology for using arts-based techniques to co-produce knowledge with community members, thus making it accessible at both the theoretical and practice levels for social workers and social work educators. In this methodology, the arts are used not as a diagnostic tool or as fine art, but rather as a trigger for a reflective and socially critical dialogue with community members, with the aim of understanding how they experience their life situation. The proposed methodology includes three central compositional elements of art analyses: the inter-relationship between figure and background within a composition, the recourses and obstacles included in the picture background and the use of symbols and metaphors. The present manuscript illustrates this innovative analytical prism, providing examples of images and explanatory narratives of engaged and married young Muslim women in Israel, as self-defined by the participants rather than as an external anthropology. We further outline the implications of this methodology for other cases.

PurposeThe article aims at analyzing narratives discourses to project dialogic storying as relevant in a mode of narrative research in English language education.Design/methodology/approachAs an English language teacher and researcher, the author adopts narrative analysis as the research method for doctoral study, so this article delves into narrative research methods, especially in the context of English language education. The author found various existing notions on narrative research from Clandinin and Connelly (2000) and Barkhuizen et al. (2014), who contend that narrative is a mode of processing experiences and events in the form of a story. The author corroborated various notions on narrative research in English language education as an argument that narratives can be a strong data source in English language educational research. Since it has been a research focus for English language educators, the author explored seven dissertations that were submitted to a Nepalese university in 2017, 2018 and 2019.FindingsThe article aims at analyzing narratives discourses to project dialogic storying as relevant in a mode of narrative research in English language education. While examining the dissertations, the author found that the subjective and ideological exploration of narratives is in practice; however, they need further in-depth analysis under a specific framing. The author argues that the concept of dialogic storying can be strong narrative research in English language education.Research limitations/implicationsIt has examined prospective applications of the dialogic storying process using dissertations submitted to a University in Nepal. In terms of conceptual discussions on narratives and narrative analysis, it is more interpretive.Practical implicationsIt provides an initial framing to get into narrative research in English language education. It allows academics to go further into subjective and ideological inquiries in order to discuss more categorical elements in narrative research.Originality/valueIt is a more thematic and interpretive discussion so it discusses existing and appropriate practices in narrative research methods to defend the dialogic storying approach. It has not counter argued the existing knowledge; however, it provides insights to clarify dialogic storying as a research approach.