Narrative research design focuses on studying individuals by collecting and telling stories about their lives and experiences. It derives from narrating or telling stories in detail. Researchers describe individuals' lives through stories about their experiences and write narratives of those experiences. Narrative research is used when individuals are willing to share their stories and when the stories follow a chronological order. It was introduced to education in 1990 and involves collecting stories, restorying them, collaborating with participants, and writing narratives about personal and social experiences. Key aspects include focusing on individuals, collecting chronological stories, identifying themes, and ensuring context and collaboration.

1. NARRATIVE RESEARCH
DESIGN
BY
NUR SYUHADA MOHD RASHID
2017932187
EDU702 RESEARCH METHODOLOGY

2. KEY CONCEPTS IN NARRATIVE RESEARCH
DESIGN
• What is it, when to use it and how did it develop?
• Types
• Key characteristics
• Steps in conducting
• Ethical issues
• Evaluation

3. WHAT IS NARRATIVE RESEARCH DESIGN?
• Derives from the verb ‘narrate’
- “to tell a story in detail”
• “researchers describe the lives of individuals, collect and tell
stories about people’s lives, and write narratives of individual
experiences,” (Connelly & Clandinin, 1990 )
• typically focuses on studying a single person, gathering data
through the collection of stories, reporting individual
experiences, and discussing the meaning of those experiences
for the individual.

4. WHEN TO USE NARRATIVE RESEARCH
DESIGN?
• when there are individuals/people willing to tell you
their stories and you, as a researcher, want to report
them
• when the stories you gathered follow a chronological
order
• when you want to collect practical, specific insights,
particularly in the education field

5. HOW DID NARRATIVE RESEARCH DESIGN
DEVELOP?
• Dr Jean Clandinin and Michael Connelly introduced the
research design into education field back in 1990
• Elaborated the process of collecting narrative
fieldnotes, writing and structure of a narrative study
• Some trends that helped spread the use of narrative
design include teacher’s reflection, teacher’s
knowledge, and teachers voicing their experiences

6. TYPES OF NARRATIVE RESEARCH DESIGN
• Biographies
• Autobiographies
• Personal accounts/documents
• Life writings
• Narrative interviews
• Ethnohistories
• Person-centered ethnographies
• Latin American testimonies
(more in Creswell pg. 504)

7. KEY CHARACTERISTICS OF NARRATIVE
RESEARCH DESIGN
• Individual experiences
• Chronology of the experiences
• Collecting individual stories
• Restorying
• Coding for themes
• Context or setting
• Collaborating with participants

8. STEPS IN CONDUCTING NARRATIVE RESEARCH
DESIGN
Identify a
phenomenon that
addresses an
educational problem
Purposefully select
an individual to learn
about the
phenomenon.
Collect stories from
that individual that
reflect personal and
social experiences.
Restory or retell the
individual's story
Collaborate with the
participant
storyteller in all
phases of research.
Write a story about
the participant’s
personal and social
experiences.
Validate the accuracy
of the report.

9. ETHICAL ISSUES IN NARRATIVE RESEARCH
DESIGN
Authenticity
Distortion
of Data
Ownership

10. EVALUATION OF NARRATIVE RESEARCH
DESIGN
• Keeps the focus on a single individual (or two)
• Reports the life experiences of individuals as told through their
stories
• Restories the individual’s stories and tells the story using a
chronology with a beginning, middle, and end
• Describes in some details the context of the story (i.e., the setting,
the place where it occurs, the people involved, and so forth)
• Reports themes (5 to 7) to emerge out of the story
• Closely collaborates with the participant providing the story

11. THANK YOU