Thoughts Awaiting Narrative Researchers: Narrative Inquiry as "Public Scholarship" in the Age of Postqualitative Research

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

Over the last decade, qualitative research has been situated under the umbrella of the “posts” including postmodern, poststructural, postcolonial, postsubjective, postrepresentational, and most recently, posthuman, resulting in what is now being called “post qualitative research” (St. Pierre, 2013, 2015). The purpose of this symposium session is to examine where narrative inquiry stands within the post qualitative research movement. Six dedicated narrative researchers contribute to this interactive discussion to address the significance of the emerging post-qualitative methodological theory for narrative inquiry and discuss what narrative inquirers can contribute to this important movement. In so doing, we interrogate the role of narrative inquiry as “public scholarship” in educating diverse democracies, following the theme of AERA 2016.

Sub Unit

• SIG-Narrative Research

Chair

• Jeong-Hee Kim, Texas Tech University

Papers

• Narrative Inquiry in the Ontological Turn - Jerry L. Rosiek, University of Oregon

• Narrative Construction as a Postqualitative Project: A Retrospective Analysis - Cathy A. Coulter, The University of Alaska - Anchorage

• Modes of Being: Mobilizing Narrative Inquiry - Margaret A. Macintyre Latta, The University of British Columbia - Okanagan

• The Role of the Teacher's Bildungsroman in Postqualitative Research - Jeong-Hee Kim, Texas Tech University

• Sounding Off: Voice, Expression, and Intent in Narrative Forms of Research - Walter S. Gershon, Kent State University

• Stories as Desire: Rethinking Narrative Inquiry via Psychoanalysis and Its Ontological Consequences - Jake Burdick, Purdue University

Discussant

• Petra Munro Hendry, Louisiana State University