Narrative Research in Practice

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xvii

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2. Narrative Research in Practice: Navigating the Terrain

   • Rachael Dwyer, elke emerald

   Pages 1-25

3. Autoethnography: Is My Own Story Narrative Research?

   • elke emerald, Lorelei Carpenter

   Pages 27-46

4. Saying Goodbye to Mr Chips: Masculinity, Narrative and Identity Construction

   • Ian Davis, Greer Johnson

   Pages 47-66

5. Critical Junctures in Narrative Research: Collaborative Reflections on Methodological Issues

   • Jeanette Kennelly, Alison Ledger, Libby Flynn

   Pages 67-88

6. If You See What I Mean? Visual Narratives – Stories Told Through, With And By Visual Images

   • lisahunter

   Pages 89-116

7. Where Words Fail: Storying Audio-Visual Data

   • Jessica O’Bryan

   Pages 117-139

8. Sensual, Sensory and Sensational Narratives

   • lisahunter, elke emerald

   Pages 141-157

9. Who Is Asking the Questions?

   • Sol Rojas-Lizana

   Pages 159-181

10. Insights into Disability and Giftedness: Narrative Methodologies in Interviewing Young People Identified as Twice Exceptional

    • Michelle Ronksley-Pavia, Peter Grootenboer

    Pages 183-207

11. The IELTS Roller Coaster: Stories of Hope, Stress, Success, and Despair

    • Megan Yucel, Noriko Iwashita

    Pages 209-223

12. The Power and Possibility of Narrative Research: Challenges and Opportunities

    • Ian Davis, Rachael Dwyer

    Pages 225-238

13. Back Matter

    Pages 239-245

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This book directly addresses the multiplicity and complexity of narrative research by illustrating a variety of avenues to pursuing and publishing research that falls under the umbrella of narrative work. The chapters are drawn from a wide range of disciplines including education, literary studies, cultural studies, music and clinical studies. Each chapter considers a particular methodological issue or approach, illustrating how it was addressed in the course of the research. Each of the chapters concludes with a set of discussion exercises and a further reading list. The book offers a valuable resource for established researchers seeking to expand their methodological and theoretical repertoire, and for graduate students and researchers new to narrative methods.

• Narrative research
• higher education
• narrative inquiry
• narrative methodology
• research education
• research methodology

• Queensland Conservatorium Research Centre, Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia

  Rachael Dwyer

• Griffith Institute for Educational Research, Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia

  Ian Davis

• Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia

  elke emerald

Rachael Dwyer is a research fellow at the Queensland Conservatorium, Griffith University. Her research interests include teacher education, assessment in higher education, research pedagogy, critical pedagogy and narrative inquiry. Rachael’s new book “Music teachers’ values and beliefs” will be published with Ashgate/Taylor and Francis in 2016.


Ian Davis has been an educator for the past fifteen years, with a primary interest in Narrative Masculinity and Education. Ian has worked at both Sydney University and now Griffith University with the Institute for Educational Research. Before moving to Australia he worked in London at Croydon College of Higher Education where he was the Head of the Critical and Theoretical Studies Department andbefore that as a Lecturer in the Education Studies Department. Ian has a new book, “Stories of Men and Teaching,” which is being published by Springer.


elke emerald is a Senior Lecturer at Griffith University School of Education and Professional Studies. Her primary interest is in the construction of identities in social life, and her current research pursuits fall within the theoretical and methodological frame of narrative inquiry, presently exploring autoethnography and sensory narrative and more recently inspired by literary and artistic forms of representation. 

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