Key Ideas
- Narrative inquiry is a qualitative research methodology that critically analyzes social and cultural contexts of human experience.
- Narrative inquiry, or “storytelling,” is the first and oldest form of inquiry.
- Narrative inquiry is cross-disciplinary and is used by such fields as philosophy, education, science, religion, economics, law, and medicine.
- A critical event approach to narrative inquiry focuses on what the research participant identifies as important in the story.
- Narrative inquiry challenges positivist notions that only one truth exists.
- Narrative inquiry researchers continually question “What I know” and “How I know it.”
Narrative inquiry is a qualitative research methodology that seeks ways to understand and represent ...