Ethical Relationality and Existing and Emerging Methods in Narrative Inquiry: Potential for Dismantling Racial and Other Injustices in Education

• In Event: Exploring Racial Inequity Through Narrative Methodologies

Abstract

We takeup the call to action for AERA 2024 to showcase involvement in co-constructing research and educational possibilities that emerge when the dismantling of racial injustices are centered. Narrative inquiry has long taken up this call. To trace this commitment, we focus on methods we and other inquirers have co-created with research participants to respect their research, life desires, and ways of being as we collectively seek to create educational spaces that are free of racial injustices. Because of the growing commitment to ethical relationality in the living, telling, retelling, and reliving processes of narrative inquiry, these earlier typical methods have shaped a fertile ground from which new promising methods are continuing to emerge.

Authors

• M. Shaun Murphy, University of Saskatchewan

• Trudy M. Cardinal, University of Alberta

• Janice Huber, University of Alberta

• Stefinee E. Pinnegar, Brigham Young University

• Stavros Georgios Stavrou, University of Saskatchewan

• Viviane Cabral Bengezen, Federal University of Catalao