Places of Practice: Learning to Think Narratively

Authors

  • Jean Clandinin <em>University of Alberta</em>
  • Vera Caine <em>University of Alberta</em>
  • Andrew Estefan <em>University of Calgary</em>
  • Janice Huber <em>University of Regina</em>
  • M. Shaun Murphy <em>University of Saskatchewan</em>
  • Pam Steeves <em>University of Alberta</em>

Abstract

In the lived practices of narrative inquiry, we honour our relational ontological commitments and responsibilities as narrative inquirers. In this paper, we link these ontological commitments with our practice, which is often tension-filled because the knowledge landscape on which we live as researchers is shaped by paradigmatic rather than narrative knowledge. It is easy to get swept into thinking paradigmatically and to sustain ourselves as narrative inquirers amidst knowledge landscapes that cast narrative inquirers as not knowing when seen from within dominant plotlines. We see that not to fall into these dominant plotlines requires wakefulness to shaping places where we can practice thinking narratively.

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Published

2015-03-05

How to Cite

Clandinin, J., Caine, V., Estefan, A., Huber, J., Murphy, M. S., & Steeves, P. (2015). Places of Practice: Learning to Think Narratively. Narrative Works, 5(1). Retrieved from https://journals.lib.unb.ca/index.php/NW/article/view/23783

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Vol. 5 No. 1 (2015)

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