Collaborative Production of Narrative Portraits: Toward Innovative Partnerships Between Researchers and Participants

• In Event: Roundtable Session 44
  In Roundtable Session: Expanding Understandings of Narrative Research in Qualitative Inquiry

Abstract

Illustrating the narratives of three Black and Latina women who graduated from high school as mothers, this paper explores the possibilities that emerged from a researcher-participant collaboration. This paper draws from a larger qualitative study that examined the tensions between metanarratives on success in high school and the lived experiences of three young mothers. By focusing on one aspect of this study’s methodology, this paper explores how the researcher invited the participants to review, comment on, add to, and amend the narratives that the researcher assembled from the data. Participants were included in the writing and revising process in a meaningful way, offering new ways to envision bringing the “public” (i.e., the participants) into the process of making public scholarship.

Author

• Elizabeth Chase, St. John's University