Narrative Inquiry in Educational sciences
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Keywords: Narrative Inquiry , educational sciences, critical perspective,
Abstract :
The book Engaging in a Narrative Inquiry, that published in 2022 by Dr. Jane Clendenin, professor emeritus at the University of Alberta, Canada, has been translated into Persian by Dr. Mahmoud Mehrmohmmadi under the title "Narrative Research in Education." The author takes a foundationalist stance, meaning that he sees the quality of narrative research as stemming from the researcher's philosophical foundation. The author's own position is Deweyian pragmatism. Relying on Dewey's relational approach, which he contrasts with the transcendental approach, he bases his ontology, epistemology, and value theory on relationalism and explains narrative research accordingly. In the author's opinion, narrative is formed in terms of three elements: time, place, and social conditions and narrative research is always subject to change in the context of continuous retelling of narratives. What is crucial is that the results be effective in solving problems. Some aspects of the author's perspective are controversial. Among them, the opposition of relation and transcendence in all three of its philosophical dimensions is subject to criticism; the place of truth in his narrative research is empty and reduced to efficiency; and finally, the collective narrative is not considered in this book and only the social conditions of the individual narrative are focused on.
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