Rescuing narrative from qualitative research

Atkinson, Paul; Delamont, Sara

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“…The choice of Strauss' method enabled us to explore deep assumptions often left unsaid while the holistic content analysis aided us in probing the significance of a story (or stories) as a whole. Both methods concur with Atkinson and Delamont's (2006) view that a narrative is a performance, "a cultural resistance on the part of the marginal, the dispossessed and the muted" (p. 168) and McAdams, Hoffman, Day and Mansfield's (1996) conclusion that these self-defining stories give unity and purpose to the tellers' lives. Getting students to openly discuss their experiences relating to their ethnic/racial identity is a challenge, despite initial participant nervousness, a single interview can illustrate unique and profound experiences.…”

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My Story, My Identity: Doctoral Students of Color at a Research University

Jaeger

Haley

2016

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We are deeply concerned about the small representation of faculty of color in the academy; thus, we address the question of how and why doctoral students of color choose a particular career path. This qualitative research study, through the voices of the doctoral students of color, identifies and explains both the overt and covert obstacles encountered by graduate students of color in their consideration of academic careers. The stories of leading change efforts through the pursuit of an advanced education are stories of individual agency. At the same time, their education was not an individual effort; rather, these students of color pursued an advanced education both for themselves and for others. These results suggest specific implications for practice that focus on the unique perspectives of doctoral students of color.

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My Story, My Identity: Doctoral Students of Color at a Research University

Jaeger

Haley

2016

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“…Narrative analysis originally grew out of literary theory (Zald, 1996) and, over the past two decades, has generated a 'narrative turn' in the social sciences (Atkinson & Delamont, 2006;Spector-Mersel, 2010). It is an interpretive approach that seeks to bring the reader closer to the phenomenon being studied (Bansal & Corley, 2011), allows an examination of social dynamics as process and enables understanding of human behaviour and the complex, relational quality of social interactions (Cope, 2005;Leitch, Hill, & Harrison, 2010).…”

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Science Lives: School choices and ‘natural tendencies’

Salehjee

Watts

2015

International Journal of Science Education

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“…Moreover, a number of the studies on aging called upon in the remains of this paper might use more than one lens for their analytical purposes. Narrative analysis: Story analysts and storytelling Organised through the umbrella term narrative analysis, two standpoints toward analysing narratives may be teased out from within the literature (e.g., Atkinson, 1997;Atkinson & Delamont, 2006;Bochner, 2001Bochner, , 2002Ellis, 2004;Lieblich et al, 1998;Polkinghorne, 1995;Riessman, 2008;Richardson, 2000;Smith & Sparkes, 2006). These may be termed a story analyst and storyteller.…”

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Narrative analysis in aging studies: A typology for consideration

Phoenix

Smith

Sparkes

2010

Journal of Aging Studies

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This article seeks to expand our understanding on narrative and the analysis of stories researchers invite and collect in the domain of aging studies. To do so, we first offer an understanding of what narrative inquiry can be by laying out a theoretical basis for this kind of research, and making a case for the relevance of narrative as an alternative methodology. Painting with broad strokes, narrative analysis as a method is then considered before a typology of different ways in which stories can be analyzed is introduced. Illuminated by the typology are two contrasting standpoints toward narrative analysis-storyteller and story analyst-and three specific methods-structural, performative, and autoethnograpic creative analytic practices-that each standpoint might use to analyse the whats and hows of storytelling. The article closes by suggesting that in order to assist us to understand the complexities of aging researchers might consider using a variety of analyses. Keywords: Aging; Narrative analysis; Story analyst; Storyteller; Structural analysis; Performative analysis; Creative analytical practices Introduction According to Birren (1999), aging has become one of the most complex areas of study facing modern day science. Not least, this is because the process of growing older is something which is dynamic, interactive, subject to the twists and turns of life, chance, change and complication. Or, as Randall (2007) puts it, aging is a process which is exemplified by complexity. For him, we become more unique and more distinctive with age, not less. With this in mind, it is perhaps unsurprising that narrative forms of inquiry have burgeoned within aging studies to the extent that narrative gerontology is now a recognized discipline in itself (Kenyon, Clark, & de Vries, 2001;Randall, 2007). Within aging studies, narrative has been used, for example, to examine social policy (Biggs, 2001), issues of masculinity (Jackson, 2003;Smith, Braunack--Mayer, Wittert & Warin, 2007), interpersonal and intimate relationships (Jones, 2002;Rosenfeld, 2003;Matthews, 2000), physical activity in later life (Dionigi & O'Flynn, 2007;Heuser, 2005;Tulle, 2007), narrative maps of aging (Phoenix & Sparkes, 2006a, 2006b, body image and beauty work (Halliwell & Dittmar, 2003; Hurd Clarke & Griffin, 2007a;Paquette & Raine, 2004), experiences of health and illness (Jolanki, 2004;Faircloth, Rittman, Boylstein, Young & Van Puymbroeck, 2004;Sanders, Donovan & Dieppe, 2002), carework (Ribeiro, Paú& Nogueira, 2007Twigg, 2000), and retirement (Savishinsky, 2000). As part of this, narrative analysis has attracted interest and has been utilised. In this article, we aspire to develop and extend our understandings of narrative analysis by introducing a typology that considers this method in the plural rather than in the singular. The rationale for doing so, following Elliot (2005), is that applying a classification or typology might be a useful way of making sense of different techniques and approaches currently operating

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Rescuing narrative from qualitative research

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My Story, My Identity: Doctoral Students of Color at a Research University

My Story, My Identity: Doctoral Students of Color at a Research University

Science Lives: School choices and ‘natural tendencies’

Narrative analysis in aging studies: A typology for consideration

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