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A Process Of Becoming: In Favour Of A Reflexive Narrative Approach, Ellyn Lyle
A Process Of Becoming: In Favour Of A Reflexive Narrative Approach, Ellyn Lyle
The Qualitative Report
As both researcher and practitioner, or in service educator, I often resist situating myself within one discrete tradition. For this reason, I turn to narrative as an approach to understanding. I believe employing narrative allows me to draw from a cross-section of scholarly work including reflexive inquiry, critical analysis, and autoethnography. Often qualified as a method or a tool of inquiry, the narrative approach is rarely examined for its epistemological underpinnings. Thus, A Process of Becoming refers to both the promotion of a methodological approach to knowing in social science and to the medium through which practitioners can become better …