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Empowering Teachers Through Narrative Research: Understanding Lives and Experiences

Narrative research offers a rich qualitative approach to explore how individuals experience their lives, particularly in educational contexts. By emphasizing teacher reflection and knowledge, this method empowers educators to construct narratives that reveal the meaning behind their experiences. Over the last 15 years, narrative research has addressed complex issues, fostering a collaborative relationship between researchers and participants. This intimate, trust-based process values the voices of teachers, providing insights that numbers alone cannot convey. Ultimately, narrative research aims to enhance understanding and highlight the storied lives of educators.

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Empowering Teachers Through Narrative Research: Understanding Lives and Experiences

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  1. Qualitative Research

  2. Narrative research • How humans experience their lives • Storied lives • Researchers construct a narrative attributing experiences to some meaning

  3. Narrative research • Influences in the last 15 years • Emphasis on teacher reflection • Emphasis on teacher knowledge • Empowering teachers in research process

  4. Narrative research • Addresses difficult issues • Goal is to increase understanding • Sharing storied lives of teachers to provide insight • Some believe numbers cannot represent this understanding and insight

  5. Narrative research process • Identify purpose and phenomenon to explore • Select an individual to learn from • Pose initial narrative questions • Describe researcher’s role

  6. Narrative research process • Describe data collection methods • Describe strategies for analysis and interpretation of data • Collaborate with participant to write the narrative – validate accuracy

  7. Narrative research • Highly sensitive, intimate approach • Trust • Equality of voice

  8. Narrative research - types • Autobiographies/biographies • Personal accounts • Oral histories • Ethnohistories/ethnobiographies

  9. Narrative research – key points“And then what happened?” • Focus on individual experiences • Concerned with chronology of these experiences • Concentrates on the life story based on collected data • Incorporates context and place • Collaborative effort – researcher and participant

  10. Narrative research – techniques • Multiple data sources ensure objectivity • Interaction required • Restorying – researcher gathers stories and picks key elements to build a chronological sequence • Raw data translated to cohesive unit of information

  11. Narrative research – techniques • Interview • Spoken words plus reactions, nuances, etc. • Transcribed data – key elements identified • Researcher organizes the story chronologically • Setting, characters, actions, problems, and resolutions are detailed

  12. Narrative research – analysis • Narrative analysis • Descriptions of events collected • Synthesized into narratives • Attempts to answer how and why • Analysis of narrative • Stories collected • Constructs themes central to all stories captured in narrative

  13. Narrative research – data sources • Oral history • Storytelling • Letter writing • Lesson plans • Parent newsletters • Philosophical statements

  14. Ethnographic research • Cultural patterns • Perspectives of participants in natural settings • Goal is to describe, analyze, and interpret the culture of a group and their shared beliefs, behaviors, and language

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