Negotiating Narrative Accounts in Narrative Inquiry

• In Event: AERA Roundtable Session Friday 1:30 pm Four Seasons Ballroom 2-3
  In Roundtable Session: Narrative Research: Methods and Practices (Table 6)

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to discuss and make clear the methodological commitments of co-composing and negotiating narrative accounts in narrative inquiry. The negotiation of interim texts is a widely used practice across a range of methodologies and paradigms (i.e., member checking, member validation, member reflections, narrative accounting), yet there is little discussion on the varied philosophical underpinnings that shape the meaning and purpose of negotiating interim texts with participants. By drawing on the authors experiences of negotiating narrative accounts across projects this paper will clarify the relational commitments that underpin this aspect of narrative inquiry as a move towards mutuality, co-composition, friendship, and ongoing attentiveness ordinary lived experience.

Author

• Michael Dubnewick, University of Regina