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Whose stories matter? Re-vising, reflecting and re-discovering a researcher's embodied experience as a narrative inquirer
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McMahon, J and McGannon, R, Whose stories matter? Re-vising, reflecting and re-discovering a researcher's embodied experience as a narrative inquirer, Sport Education and Society, 21, (1) pp. 96-113. ISSN 1357-3322 (2016) [Refereed Article]
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© 2015 Taylor & Francis
DOI: doi:10.1080/13573322.2015.1076779
Abstract
This paper centres on one researcher’s narrative inquiry of embodied experience. The purpose of
this paper is to initiate and extend dialogue which highlights potential possibilities and limitations
for those researchers and participants who choose to engage with the narrative inquiry approach.
Of special concern are four points or evocations that have been enacted and/or encountered by a
researcher (Author 1) as a narrative inquirer over the past seven years. Those being; narrative and
the (re)presentation of lived experience; constraints imposed by positivists; the double-edged
sword of evocation and verisimilitude, and the potentiality of initiating catharsis. This paper
provides personal insights into how one researcher’s reactions to tensions, positivist constraints in
and through the narrative inquiry process led her to, in some instances to conform to narrative
critics’ impositions. The narrative inquiry of embodied experience included in this paper is by no
means conclusive, finalised or absolute; it does, however, represent a cross section of
conformance as well as theoretical and methodological realisations and tensions encountered.
Item Details
Item Type: | Refereed Article |
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Keywords: | narrative inquiry, narrative, creative analytical practices, alternate representations, embodiment |
Research Division: | Education |
Research Group: | Other education |
Research Field: | Other education not elsewhere classified |
Objective Division: | Education and Training |
Objective Group: | Other education and training |
Objective Field: | Other education and training not elsewhere classified |
UTAS Author: | McMahon, J (Associate Professor Jennifer McMahon) |
ID Code: | 105263 |
Year Published: | 2016 |
Web of Science® Times Cited: | 5 |
Deposited By: | Education |
Deposited On: | 2015-12-16 |
Last Modified: | 2017-11-01 |
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