How the lessons we learned become lessons we can learn: Understanding memories of primary school experiences using narrative inquiry
Book chapter
Authors | Shelton, F. |
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Abstract | This chapter reflects upon the experiences of the methodological journey I undertook to collect and analyse data for my doctoral research. The reflection explains approaches I took to attempt an authentic and open approach to my research which positions the participants (narrators), as co-authors of their stories of their primary school experiences. In this chapter, I have focused on one theme which related to the lessons learned at school, as remembered by the narrators. The paper explains why narrative inquiry is a valuable method to understand experience and how I try to make sense of stories, recognising that narrators remember the stories with recollections, reflections and feelings (affect). I observed how stories needed to be |
Keywords | narrative inquiry, experience, meaning making, primary school, memories |
Year | 2019 |
Publisher | Waxmann Verlag |
ISBN | 9783830940227 |
Web address (URL) | http://hdl.handle.net/10545/624564 |
hdl:10545/624564 | |
File | File Access Level Open |
Publication dates | 15 Aug 2019 |
Publication process dates | |
Deposited | 06 Mar 2020, 13:53 |
Accepted | 2018 |
Contributors | University of Derby |
https://repository.derby.ac.uk/item/94x13/how-the-lessons-we-learned-become-lessons-we-can-learn-understanding-memories-of-primary-school-experiences-using-narrative-inquiry
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