Narrative Inquiry as Social Justice Practice

• In Event: 35.066 - Narrative Research and Social Justice

Abstract

Narrative inquiry, the study of experience understood narratively, is both phenomenon and methodology (Clandinin & Connelly, 2000). In this proposed session, we develop our understandings of experience by attending to how narrative inquiry can be understood as a practice of social justice. Drawing on work over several years in different inquiries we make visible understandings of social justice as a way of living that is deeply shaped by an ethic of care (Noddings, 2003). It is in living alongside participants in narrative inquiries that we know social justice concerns. In our inquiries we did not name social justice concerns; rather, we came to know social justice concerns through being with people, through attending to experiences.

Authors

• Vera F. Caine, University of Alberta

• Janice Huber, University of Alberta

• Andrew Estefan, The University of Calgary

• M. Shaun Murphy, University of Saskatchewan

• D. Jean Clandinin, University of Alberta

• Pamela A. Steeves, University of Alberta