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| Unit name |
Narrative and Life Story Research |
| Unit code |
EDUCD0070 |
| Credit points |
20 |
| Level of study |
D/8
|
| Teaching block(s) |
Academic Year (weeks 1 - 52)
|
| Unit director |
Dr. Reed |
| Open unit status |
Not open |
| Pre-requisites |
None |
| Co-requisites |
None |
| School/department |
School of Education |
| Faculty |
Faculty of Social Sciences and Law |
Description including Unit Aims
This unit will critique ‘narrative’ as a root metaphor for understanding and describing human experience, provide participants with an overview of contemporary narrative research and develop critical awareness of the implications of particular methodological choices and positions. Debate, discussion and structured activities will facilitate the presentation, comparison, evaluation and justification of specific forms of narrative research at both micro levels (such as narrative analysis) and macro levels (such as narrative approaches to educational inquiry).
Aims:
- To explore and critique the ‘narrative turn’ in research methodology.
- To develop knowledge and critical understanding of a range of narrative ‘positions’ and their various histories and purposes.
- To enable participants to identify, articulate and situate their own developing approach(es) to narrative inquiry
Intended Learning Outcomes
Participants will be able to:
- Engage in debate and discussion about narrative world views.
- Identify and describe different narrative approaches, their development, their purposes and their interrelationships.
- Present, articulate and situate their own developing approach to narrative inquiry.
Teaching Information
Teaching and learning opportunities will include tutor and student presentations, guided reading and critical image viewing, seminars and workshops.
Assessment Information
Either an assignment or video-paper, inclusive of inter-related images/film sequences or a written assignment of 4000 words.
Reading and References
- Clandinin, J and Connolly, M (2000) Narrative Inquiry: Experience and story in Qualitative Research, San Francisco: Jossey-Bass
- Freeman, M (1998) Mythical Time, Historical Time and The Narrative Fabric Of The Self, In: Narrative Inquiry, 8(1) 27-50
- Riessman, C (2008) Narrative Methods for the Human Sciences, Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
- McQuillan, M. (2000) The Narrative Reader, London: Routledge.
- Roberts B (2002) Biographical Research, Buckingham: Open University
- Speedy, J (2008) Narrative inquiry and Psychotherapy, Houndmills: Palgrave Macmillan
