Image via Wikipedia Manny: I agree that when we feel connected to our purpose that our decisions and actions come naturally and easily and we can find the resources we need to break through challenges. Staying connected in a human way to our sources of strength with an appreciation of our own limits but our […]
Tag: Narrative Inquiry
A Systems and “sense-making” perspective on leadership
Image via Wikipedia when i hear technology, i think of the “means” of exercising control, authority, communication, and i remember how easily it has become an “end” in and of itself in practice technology has created at least as many new, unforeseen challenges as it has solved. it has been used as a crutch, it […]
Exploring the “n-dimensional” space of Narrative Inquiry
I always thought of storytelling as being of 1 kind; I am uncovering that there is something like an “n-dimensional space” of perspectives on story-telling. For instance, on just one dimension: scope. There is a hierarchy of how “complete and of what size” the story is that includes the following categories (arbitrary right now, and of […]
The Many Distinctions of Narrative Inquiry
While conducting a methodological review of narrative inquiry as a technique to create meaning from heaps of data, both qualitative and quantitative it quickly became apparent that narrative inquiry is a much broader and deeper and diversified field than I originally thought. It is such a rich area that it deserves some detail research in […]
The variety of perspectives in narrative inquiry
when I was reviewing my research questions for the qualitative portion of my mixed methods project, I became intrigued by the idea of narrative inquiry as a process to help me make meaning out of the reams of data that I had been accumulating from various cycles of participatory action research with students, faculty, curriculum […]