Narrative Inquiry Method Research Articles

체육계 근로 현장에서 긱 워커(Gig Worker)로 살아남기 : 스포츠 전문가의 독립형 근로 전환에 대한 내러티브

This study explores the stories and experiences of sports experts who are aiming for independent work in the field of physical education and sports. To this end, a narrative research method was used for trainers with 18 years of experience in athlete rehabilitation and physical fitness trainers. Data was collected through narrative interviews and participatory observation based on the life experiences of participants in the study from January 2020 to May 2022. The collected data were analyzed through cultural descriptive methods, and the results are as follows. First, the research participants face a new job environment after the change in trends in the sports industry and the Corona pandemic. Second, the research participants who felt the need for change decide to get out of the current work environment. Third, for change, they destroy the existing way of working and seek a new way of life. Fourth, to become independent workers, the research participants strengthen networking in their specialized areas, utilize online platforms, and maintain flexibility and non-exclusiveness of working conditions. Fifth, as independent workers, gig workers, they make an effort to build their own domain.

한국어교원의 사회통합프로그램 교수 경험에 대한 내러티브 탐구

Objectives The purpose of this study is to examine the teaching experience of Korean language teachers teaching Korean in an in-depth and multifaceted manner in Korea Immigration and Integration Program. Methods Using the narrative inquiry method, one of the qualitative research methods proposed by Clandinin and Connelly, in-depth interviews were conducted with five teachers teaching Korean for general purpose at university language institutions and Korean for special purpose in Korea Immigration and Integration Program. In addition, the data were analyzed using the domain analysis and taxonomic analysis method to find patterns, threads, and theme that continued to appear while reading the interview transcription data several times repeatedly. Results As a result of analyzing the experiences of five Korea Immigration and Integration Program teachers, there were four common experiences: Korean classes like air for learners, classes where writing is a dilemma, classes followed by healing, pain and regret, and classes that need an open mind to listen. Conclusions This study is meaningful in that it explored in detail and specifically the experience of Korean language teachers teaching Korea Immigration and Integration Program. This study will help to come up with a more effective and efficient way to teach immigrants learning Korean in the Korea Immigration and Integration Program based on the differences between general purpose Korean classes and special purpose Korean classes in Korea Immigration and Integration Program. In addition, it can be used as a basic material to help understand the rapidly increasing number of learners of Korea Immigration and Integration Program and lay the foundation for Korean language education for them.

Perceptions of Marginality and Mattering of LGBTQIA Community College Students

ABSTRACT Community colleges provide an education to a large share of college students. Yet, there is a paucity of research on LGBTQIA community college students, particularly how their experiences of marginality and mattering impact their sense of belonging, academic persistence, and personal development. Using the qualitative method of narrative inquiry, guided by Schlossberg (1989) marginality and mattering theory, and informed by Bronfenbrenner’s (1995) ecological systems theory, this study explores the experiences of marginality and mattering of LGBTQIA students at a community college. We found LGBTQIA community college students experience both a sense of marginality and mattering based on their interaction with various social contexts within the college. Results also suggested the establishment of a LGBTQIA resource center and positive faculty engagement increased LGBTQIA students’ sense of mattering, thus allowing them to persist and achieve their academic goals. We conclude by offering recommendations for community colleges and future research.

한센인 2세의 삶에 관한 내러티브 연구

In the 1960s, the South Korean government established settlement villages under the pretense of helping people with Hansen's disease to support themselves, but failed to improve public understanding to the disease. As a result, the settlement village became another “the Sorokdo” that made it difficult for people with Hansen's disease to return to society, and the damage caused by such structural discrimination continued to posterity. However, despite being discriminated against as severely as their parents' generation, research on the children of people with Hansen's disease is very lacking. Therefor, the present study summarizes the experiences of discrimination endured by the children of people with Hansen's disease using a narrative research method with a focus on the characteristics of the space referred to as settlement villages. The South Korea government has yet to reflect on and compensate for the human rights violations experienced by the children of people with Hansen's disease and families. I hope this study will be the starting point for the social debate on discrimination experienced by the families of people with Hansen's disease.

Implementasi Kebijakan Peraturan Otoritas Jasa Keuangan (POJK) No.11/Pojk.03/2020 dalam Menekan Non Performing Financing pada Perbankan Syariah

The Coronavirus Disease-19 pandemic is an outbreak that has hit the world, with no exception for Indonesia. Many things are harmed from all aspects of life ranging from political, social, cultural, religious and economic fields. It also has an impact on the melemamahnya sharia banking system in Indonesia. This research has the purpose of knowing how the Financial Services Authority Regulation Policy (POJK) No.11/POJK.03/2020 in Suppressing Non Performing Financing (NPF) in Sharia Bank. This study uses narrative qualitative research methods with primary data from various electronic media, journals, and books, and related sources. The results of this study show that banks can implement policies that can support economic growth for sharia bank financing customers affected by the spread of Covid-19. Customers who get a restructuring waiver policy are customers affected by Covid-19 directly or indirectly.

Semi-structured interview for self-esteem regulation research

There are numerous controversies in research exploring personality dynamics and intrapsychic processes, e.g. insufficient insight provided by available measures such as self-report questionnaires. As a consequence, new methods are developed. Some of the recent theories indicate that self-esteem is not a stable personality trait, but a dynamic construct fluctuating as a result of (mostly) social interactions. I present a semi-structured interview protocol as a method of data collection which can provide rich verbal and non-verbal material referring to self-esteem regulation. Analysis system is not included as there can be many different approaches to use collected data, e.g. qualitative content analysis or narrative inquiry methods. In this paper, I present exemplary statements of participants corresponding to every part of the interview. The examples are explained considering theoretical background. Finally, the strengths and limitations of presented method are discussed, as well as possible research areas to explore with it.

Survivors’ Stories of Sexual Assault on Campus

Sexual assault is a common experience, with nearly 460,000 occurrences happening each year in Canada. Research suggests that women attending university are sexually assaulted at a higher frequency than the general population. Sexual assault (SA) has wide-ranging harmful physical, financial, social, and psychological impacts. Prevalence rates of SA are higher among women than men (30% versus 8%). Given the prevalence rates of SA, there is an urgent need for more research into the experiences of sexual assault, particularly in terms of knowledge from survivors of sexual assault on campus. A narrative research method was chosen for this study because it affords survivors of sexual assault the opportunity to construct a personal narrative and to give voice to their experiences. The research question for this study was: “What narratives are constructed by survivors of sexual assault on campus?” All the survivors were current students at a university in British Columbia and had experienced a sexual assault within the past 5 years. Six narrative themes emerged: (a) difficulty considering the experience as sexual assault, (b) harmful emotional consequences, (c) a hesitation to report and disclose experiences, (d) a placating or freeze response, (e) a desire to reconnect with the perpetrator, and (f) the need for education, resources, and policy changes on campus. The findings have significance for university sexual assault policies and procedures and offer valuable information for sexual assault counsellors in their practice.

Glimpses of Teaching in the New Normal: Changes, Challenges, and Chances

The current context on virtual education has provided a plethora of studies investigating educational institutions’ response strategies to remote and online learning formats. However, to provide a much-grounded description of the realities in the field, this study explored the role of teachers in the virtual learning environment through their narratives reflective of their experiences. Furthermore, it employed a qualitative narrative and descriptive research method anchored on the tenets of Husserlian descriptive phenomenology. Six higher education professors from different colleges and universities in Central Visayas, Philippines served as the participants of the study. Data were collected from in-depth interviews done virtually via Zoom. Based on participant narratives, the following emerged as themes: changes, challenges, and chances, respectively, in all the teaching-learning phases, from preparation and implementation to assessment. These changes, challenges, and chances shared by the participants have shed light on teaching being a multifaceted profession, putting emphasis on teachers as innovators of change. Thus, it is recommended that colleges and universities should establish an institutional based framework for emergency remote teaching. The framework should highlight policies on virtual education, upscale and upskill teachers, address learning losses, and promote strategies to build resilience in students and teachers.

Studying values about childhood using networked photography on Instagram

Abstract This study examines adults’ postings of photos of children on social media and offers a unique methodological approach to studying visual data. A major innovation of this study is first, to enact the concept and method of narrative inquiry to the digital photographs. Having applied this method, the study also offers findings about the diverse values that emerge across two specific digital parenting cultures organized via Instagram hashtags of #fashionkids and #letthekids. Values analysis of 500 photographs (250 photos from each hashtag culture) indicated that these hashtags constitute cultures defined by distinct values of ideal childhoods. While #fashionkids photos emphasized children’s attendance to the photo making activity with stress to their possessions, #letthekids photos expressed mixed values of freedom and domestic happenings with a strong emphasis on unawareness of the photographing and togetherness. While the qualities of childhood images collected in the same period hint at meaningful patterns, the way those qualities interact with each other in distinct cultures suggest that there is not one ideal image that could represent childhood in the best possible way and the photographers’ values very much influence the visual sense-making of what’s being portrayed in children’s photographs.

IDENTIFYING IMPLEMENTATION CHALLENGES FOR A NEW COMPUTER SCIENCE CURRICULUM IN RURAL WESTERN REGIONS OF THE UNITED STATES

Like much of the world, the United States is rapidly implementing the teaching of computer science into both primary and secondary school curricula. Uncovering what challenges U.S. schools in general—and rural U.S. schools in the unique environment of more mountainous regions of the U.S. in particular—face in implementing new curricula is not well established in the scholarly literature base. If reform advocates are able to anticipate implementation challenges, they might be more effective in facilitating needed changes. In response, the overarching research question is addressed: What are the challenges of delivering multi-age computer science in the rural, mountain regions of the western U.S.? This two-phase research project first identifies the anticipated challenges to implementing the curriculum by curriculum designers (Phase 1), and then goes on to compare those anticipated challenges to those identified by classroom teachers after completing a teacher training program (Phase 2). Thirteen teachers completed the training program in May and July of 2021, and five were selected to be interviewed. Transcripts of the interviews were analyzed in open, axial, and selective coding to identify recurrent and dominant themes. First, a qualitative methodology through the lens of the constructivist theory was used. Then, conventional narrative inquiry methods were employed to investigate the narratives using thematic analysis. The Phase 1 concerns of adhering to curriculum standards and using appropriate programming languages were contrasted to the Phase 2 themes of the future importance of coding for all students, confidence in pedagogy, the difficulty of coding, and issues of approval and safety. The results of this study serve as a bridge between the mandates created by education leaders and the actual experiences of the participating teachers tasked with delivering the curriculum. Keywords: computer science education, teacher education, fidelity of implementation, STEM, professional development

The Revolutionary Social Worker in Palestine: Living the Challenge of Colonialism through Non-violent Resistance—the Struggles of Munther Amira

Abstract This article explores Munther Amira’s ‘Pedagogy of Revolution’, a unique approach of non-violent resistance that adopts the pedagogy of Paulo Freire and global social work values and principles, for educating, empowering and mobilising Palestinian refugees living in the Westbank, as a means for liberation from the oppression imposed by Israel’s military occupation. The article begins by charting the history of Palestine, locating it as a place of violent upheaval and colonial occupation. It also pays particular attention to Britain’s role in abandoning the Palestinian people describing how this decision contributed to the continuing unrest and violence in the region. Using narrative inquiry methods, and by deploying a lens of contemporary social theory, the article provides a deeper understanding of the lived experiences of Palestinian refugees through the lived experiences of Munther Amira, a Palestinian refugee, social worker and human rights defender. It concludes by showing that regardless of the exceptionalism (or otherwise) of the environment, globally social work should align itself with the defence of human rights through non-violence resistance and, as a matter of urgency, should adopt what we describe as a ‘Pedagogy of Revolution’.

Tantangan dalam Transformasi Pendidikan Kedokteran Gigi pada Era Pandemik COVID-19

This study aims to assess the challenges faced by universities providing dental education in the era of the Covid-19 pandemic. This research method uses a narrative review research method. The search results obtained 143 articles and brought five pieces relevant to the focus and purpose of the literature review. The data sources obtained are then extracted using the design, sample, variable, instrument, and analysis (DSVIA) method. In the implementation of dental education in the era of the Covid-19 pandemic, many obstacles were encountered related to the learning curriculum, learning media, online assessment, conducting research and laboratory practicum, and so on. In conclusion, the biggest challenge in dental education is the steps or policies that must be taken to ensure the continuation of dental education activities during the Covid-19 pandemic.
 
 Keywords: Covid-19, Learning, Dental Education

A pūrākau analysis of institutional barriers facing Māori occupational therapy students.

IntroductionAcross Aotearoa (New Zealand), there are chronic shortages of qualified Māori (Indigenous peoples of Aotearoa) health practitioners and systemic ethnic health inequities. This study, focussing on the discipline of occupational therapy, explores Māori graduates' recollections of the institutional barriers that impacted on their study in this field over a 25‐year period.MethodsThis qualitative study interviewed seven Māori occupational therapy graduates using pūrākau—an innovative Māori narrative inquiry method. Pūrākau (stories) were collected in 2018 via kanohi ki te kanohi (face to face) semi‐structured interviews. They were analysed using the kaupapa Māori (Māori philosophical) framework of Pū‐Rā‐Ka‐Ū which draws on traditional Māori mātauranga (knowledge).FindingsThe institutional barriers identified were (1) cultural dissonance, (2) cultural (in)competency and (3) the limitations of (Western) pastoral care.ConclusionThis study highlighted how racism is embedded within the Western tertiary education system. To create a safe learning environment for Māori students, tertiary education institutions require a planned approach to address racism within policy, procedures, the curriculum, teaching and professional staff.

Meditations on an Expanded, Narrative Inquiry Methodology Combining Clinical Dynamic Understanding and Biography

As a meditation on a method of narrative inquiry, this paper describes an ongoing project which integrates a narrative, portrait-based approach to clinical storytelling with a clinically-focused dialogical process. Expanding upon previous narrative work completed by Michael O’Loughlin and colleagues, this research is a single-case, longitudinal, qualitative exploratory study of an individual who has struggled with psychosis, been exposed to the psychiatric care system, and transmuted their life history through artistic sublimation. In addition to producing a biographical portrait, the purpose of this study’s expanded methodology is to invite a reflective, dialogical process that allows for autobiographical engagement, verification and co-construction of the emerging life story, and deepening conversations about the complexities of human struggle. It is my hope that, through a version of dialogical exchange and narrative practice in the tradition of Michael White, this research provides a way in which clinicians and researchers can facilitate curative, biographical spaces for those with painful lived experience and inherited trauma. By receiving, tracking, and validating human thought and experience, this work aims to combine the portraiture of rendering a life with an in-depth exploration of the complexities of and intersectionality between subjectivity, severe psychiatric distress, creativity, counter-storying, and narrative healing.

Works of Palekh miniature painters in the field of porcelain decoration (Palekh porcelain)

The article is devoted to the history of the production and painting of artistic porcelain products in the Palekh craft – a little-studied page in the annals of the twentieth century Palekh. The subject of the study is an analysis of the technical and artistic difficulties faced by Palekh artists in mastering the production and painting of porcelain in the 1920s - 1930s, as well as the reasons that, unlike the production and painting of papier–mache, it could not be put on an industrial basis. The purpose of the article is to expand our understanding of the richness of the ways of development that the Palekh fishery had during the early Soviet period using the example of an alternative artistic material for Palekh. Using the method of comparative analysis, as well as narrative and structural research methods, the author examines the role of A.V. Bakushinsky and other representatives of the Soviet intelligentsia in the development of porcelain painting by Palekh artists. The scientific novelty of the study consists in an attempt to consider this problem as a complex phenomenon: the article analyzes Palekh porcelain products from both the pre-war period and the 1950s – 1970s. The main conclusion of the article is the statement that despite the gradual fading of the Palekh fishing organization's interest in this material, many Palekh artists continued to create talented and original porcelain products during the Soviet period.

가정교육과 남학생으로 살아가기에 대한 내러티브 탐구

Objectives The purposes of this study is to understand what the person living as a male student in the Department of Home Economics Education experiences.
 Methods The experiences of five male students in grades 3 and 4 who are in the Department of Home Economics Education in Seoul and have experience in military enlistment were examined in the narrative inquiry method.
 Results The study participants had high levels of satisfaction and pride in family education but said that some class contents were too female-biased. Within the department, they faced the stereotype of ‘man’, such as being mobilized for hard work, and they were living their lives as a minority, not knowing where to fit among the many female students. Outside the department, they were facing the stereotype that the Department of Home Economics Education was a girl student/female department. In order to solve their difficulties, the male students formed a so-called “male club” consisting of male students to give and receive practical help.
 Conclusions Understanding the life of male students in the Department of Home Economics Education means reflecting their experiences in the curriculum of the Department of Home Economics Education to make the experiences possessed by the Department of Home Economics Education. This will be the basis for the department to be reborn as a gender-integrated Department of Home Economics Education.

Prophetism in African Christianity and Biblical Traditions

Abstract This article examines the portrayal of prophetism in the works of J. Kwabena Asamoah-Gyadu and compares it with the depiction of prophetism by the author of the gospel of Luke. Prophetism is a recurrent religious phenomenon in the Christian faith, particularly in Africa. Many scholars have undertaken seminal works on the subject, depending on the popularity and effect of the experience on contemporary Christianity. Many Christian denominations have suffered schism due to the erupting of prophetic ministry and have also benefitted from the phenomenon by negotiating for religious innovations that resonate with the worldview of members of the congregation. Often, the questions asked are whether these strands of prophetism are aligned with the biblical philosophy of prophetism and which genre of the Bible contemporary prophetism reflects. This study engages the narrative research method to discuss critically how Asamoah-Gyadu writes about prophetism in contemporary African Christianity and how the author of Luke portrays it and draws lessons for scholars, contemporary prophets, and Christian denominations in which the experience is not common.

Translator Identity and the Development of Multilingual Resources for Language Learning

ABSTRACTAlthough a range of studies suggest that translation is a valuable pedagogical tool for language learning, the process of translation has not been adequately investigated. Further, the identity of the translator is invisible in much research on translation. To address these gaps in the field, the author draws on a self‐study of her translation of English books into Bangla and uses narrative inquiry methods to investigate the process of translation and the negotiation of identity. Drawing its theoretical underpinnings from Norton’s work on identity (Darvin & Norton, 2015; Norton, 2013), the author investigates how she navigated her translator identity with respect to investment, capital, and ideology. Extending Nida’s formal and functional equivalence in translation (Nida & de Waard, 1986), the author develops a “continuum of equivalence” model to facilitate decision‐making in the translation process and illustrates how she used this model in her English‐Bangla translations. Drawing on her study, the author makes the case that the model could enhance the use of translation as a pedagogical tool to promote language learners’ critical language awareness, multicultural knowledge, and creative thinking. Further, her study makes visible the identity of the translator, an important stakeholder in the promotion of multilingualism in language education internationally.

STUDENTS’ EXPERIENCES ON ENGLISH LEARNING CLASS DURING ONLINE LEARNING: NARRATIVE INQUIRY

This narrative study aims to explore the students' motivational experience of two English education students in Indonesia during the COVID-19 pandemic. The research was conducted by using a qualitative approach and narrative inquiry method. The research participants were two students second and fourth semester at the university of Singaperbangsa Karawang. To collect the data, researchers used were interviews. Drawing on semi-structured interview data, we found the prevalence of online courses affected students' emotions and motivation. Both participants experienced emotions and motivation facing the online courses. The study stresses the students’ experience, emotional experiences during online class, and factors that motivated learning. Keywords: Online learning, English Learning, Students’ Experiences

Toward Data Justice: Understanding Police Shooting Data Systems and Narratives

<italic xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"><b>Background:</b></i> <italic xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">The Washington Post</i> 's Fatal Force fatal police shooting database was first created in 2015 to fill a gap in official data collection on police use of force. <italic xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"><b>Literature review:</b></i> Critical data studies scholarship suggests that data system design is rhetorical and communicates cultural values, not just numerical data. Narrative research methods, which focus on thick, rich contextual data, could help address the rhetorical and cultural dimensions of data system design. <italic xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"><b>Research questions:</b></i> 1. How do data collection, aggregation, and curation practices influence data stories about crime and violence? 2. How does Fatal Force, a data system about police use of force that originated outside law enforcement, prioritize and organize information? 3. How does designing data systems with explicit, highly specific goals and aims (like the inclusion criteria and purpose of Fatal Force) influence the system as a whole? <italic xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"><b>Methodology:</b></i> Using “unblackboxing,” a combination of narrative and critical data studies methods, I analyzed the Fatal Force database and its accompanying data stories. I compare this database with its institutional counterpart in the FBI's fledgling Use of Force database. <italic xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"><b>Results:</b></i> Fatal Force is constructed with particular attention to questions that users may have about police brutality, police shootings, and race. Fatal Force's data stories use narrative commonplaces like sociality and temporality to humanize the issue of police use of force and communicate greater nuance. The FBI's Use of Force database shows an orientation toward police perceptions of use-of-force incidents and a lack of attention to national conversations about police brutality. <italic xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"><b>Conclusions:</b></i> Data systems show clear perspectives on the issues that they describe, which influence how users encounter the data system, how useful the system can be for various users, and how inclusive or just the data system is.