This study introduces the possibility of narrative-based research method to explore the human experience. The Narrative is closely related to human experience. The narrative has the contextuality, relativity, and cyclability of the human experience, and thus has potential as a new method of researching human experiences. Contextuality plays an important role in understanding the phenomenon through narratives, and relativity allows interpretation of individual experiences. Circulation explains the hermeneutical cycle of life in which experience is made endlessly repetitively. Thus narrative has potential as a method of inquiry dealing with a new human experience. First, the narrative-based research method can overcome limitations of existing research method based on post-positivism perspective. Second, effective contextual understanding of human change is possible. Third, it is possible to explore the various aspects of humanity as a whole. Therefore, this study suggests the narrative inquiry as one of the narrative-based research methods.
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