Introduction: What is narrative research?

By Corinne Squire, M. Andrews, Maria Tamboukou. 2008

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In the last three decades, narrative has acquired an increasingly high profile in social research, following a series of ‘narrative turns’ in other disciplinary fields, like history and literary studies. (Hyvarinen, 2010). It often seems as if all social researchers are doing narrative research in some way. Yet narrative research, although it is popular and engaging, is difficult; how to go about it is much discussed. People working in this field are frequently approached by students and colleagues, in and outside academia, asking questions like, ‘Should I request respondents to tell stories or not?’; ‘What happens if my respondents don’t produce any narratives?’; ‘What is a narrative, anyway?’and, most regularly, ‘What do I do with the stories now I’ve got them?’ Narrative data can easily seem overwhelming: susceptible to endless interpretation, by turns inconsequential and deeply meaningful.

Subfields: Education

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Citations in the corpus

• Narrative Analysis: The Constructionist Approach (2013, background): “Socially oriented narrative research differentiates from individually oriented forms which draw on the assumptions that narratives are expressions of individuals’ internal states (Squire et al., 2008: 5).”