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This chapter expostulates on the narrative inquiry methodology employed in the study. I give the rationale for my choice of narrative inquiry, and how it best serves the purpose of my study. I give a detailed account of the recruitment process and the methods I employ in analyzing the data. By using narrative inquiry, I had the opportunity to give a rich description of the inner world of the mothers in my study. The stories of and by the mothers revealed the mothers’ views, opinions, and emotions in dealing with their children’s education in a new environment. In the meantime, the stories helped contextualize the experiences of each family. I dedicate one section to the discussion of the limitation of my current study.
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Chi, X. (2020). Multi-Faceted Stories of Chinese Immigrant Families. In: Cross-Cultural Experiences of Chinese Immigrant Mothers in Canada. Intercultural Reciprocal Learning in Chinese and Western Education. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-46977-1_3
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