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Concluding Comments: Challenges, Opportunities and Future Directions in Narrative Inquiry

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This volume brings together a diversity of approaches to narrative and narrative inquiry in research with children and young people, exploring and showcasing how these concepts are understood and applied across a range of disciplines and research contexts. In this respect, the volume underlines the fluidity and diversity of narrative inquiry as a trans-disciplinary research field, with the capacity to yield highly nuanced understandings of children and young people’s everyday realities.

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Moran, L., Reilly, K., Brady, B. (2021). Concluding Comments: Challenges, Opportunities and Future Directions in Narrative Inquiry. In: Moran, L., Reilly, K., Brady, B. (eds) Narrating Childhood with Children and Young People. Studies in Childhood and Youth. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-55647-1_17

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