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Chapter 8 Narrative Research: From the Margins to Being Heard

From Teacher Thinking to Teachers and Teaching: The Evolution of a Research Community

ISBN: 978-1-78190-850-1, eISBN: 978-1-78190-851-8

Publication date: 24 June 2013

Abstract

This chapter traces the rise of narrative research as a method and form of inquiry in the field of education. While the work mainly focuses on the increased use of narrative in Finland, the fact of the matter is that the interpretative turn, which some call the narrative turn, has spread throughout the world and into almost every disciplinary area of study (medicine, law, religion, etc.). ISATT members internationally have played a key role in its development. The authors of this chapter claim that narrative not only instantiates people’s knowledge, experiences, and situations but also changes their lives. They aver that this constitutes the transformational power of narrative research and forms the essence of why it is being drawn in from the margins and gaining acceptance in mainstream discourse and society.

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Syrjälä, L. and Estola, E. (2013), "Chapter 8 Narrative Research: From the Margins to Being Heard", Craig, C.J., Meijer, P.C. and Broeckmans, J. (Ed.) From Teacher Thinking to Teachers and Teaching: The Evolution of a Research Community (Advances in Research on Teaching, Vol. 19), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 157-173. https://doi.org/10.1108/S1479-3687(2013)0000019011

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