Narrative Inquiry Resources

This page contains resources recommended by members of the AERA Narrative SIG and makes no claims to exhaustiveness. The currency and completeness of the list relies entirely on input from Narrative SIG members. Please email Joy L. Wiggins at joywiggins11@hotmail.com to add to this list.

Last updated 11 January 2009

Journals

• Narrative Inquiry

• International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education

• International Review of Qualitative Research

• Qualitative Inquiry

• Amsterdam Narratological Journal

 

Books

• Anzaldua, G. (1999). Borderlands: The new mestiza. Minneapolis, MN: Aunt Lute Books.

• Baldwin, C. (2005). Storycatcher: Making Sense of our Lives through the Power and Practice of Story. Novato, CA: New World Library. 

• Belcher Dewhurst, D., & Connor, U. (2001). Reflections on multiliterate lives. Clevedon, UK: Multilingual Matters Limited.

• Benson, D., & Nunan, D. (2005). Learner's stories: Difference and diversity in language learning. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.

• Clandinin, D. J. (2007). Handbook of narrative inquiry: Mapping a methodology. Thousand Oaks: Sage.

• Johnson, K.E. and Golombek, P.R. (2002). Teachers’ narrative inquiry as professional development. Cambridge, UK: Language Education.

• Gilligan, C. (1990). In a different voice: Psychological theory and women's development. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

• Hollingsworth, S. (1994). Teacher research and urban literacy education: Lessons and conversations in a feminist key. New York: Teachers College Press.

• Kalaja, P., Menezes, V. & Barcelos, A. F. (2008). Narratives of learning and teaching EFL. NY: Palgrave Macmillan.

• Lindemann Nelson, H. (2001). Damaged identities: Narrative repair. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.

• Lyons, N. and LaBroskey, V.K. (2002). Narrative inquiry in practice: Advancing the knowledge of teaching. Teachers College Press.

• Noddings, N. (1984). Caring: A feminine approach to ethics and moral education. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.

• Paley, V. (1989). White Teacher. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

• Paley, V. (1995). Kwanzaa and Me: A Teacher's Story. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

• Phillion, J. (2006). Narrative inquiry in a multicultural landscape: Multicultural teaching and learning. Westport, CT: Ablex.

• Phillion, J., He, M.F. and Connelly, F.M. (2005). Narrative and experiences in multicultural education. Thousand Oaks: Sage.

• Riessman, C. K. (2008). Narrative methods for the human sciences. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

• Rossiter, M. and Clark, M.C. (2007). Narrative and the practice of adult education. Malabar, FL: Krieger.

• Schubert, W.H., & Ayers, W.C. (1999) (Eds.). Teacher lore: Learning from our own experience. Troy, NY: Longman.
  

• Webster, L. and Mertova, P. (2007). Using narrative inquiry as a research method: An introduction to using critical event narrative analysis in research on learning and teaching. NY: Routledge.

• Wengraf, T. (2001). Qualitative research interviewing: Biographic narrative and semi-structured methods. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

• Young, M. (2005). Pimatisiwin: Walking in a good way: A narrative inquiry into language as identity. Winnipeg, MB: Pemmican.
  

Books that Include Narrative Research Chapters

• Alvermann, D. E. (2002). Narrative Approaches. In Kamil, M.L., Mosenthal, P.B., Pearson, P.D., and Barr, R. (Eds). Methods of literacy research: The methodology chapters from the Handbook of Reading Research V. III. New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum.

• Chase, S. E. (2005). Narrative inquiry: Multiple lenses, approaches, voices. In Denzin, N. K. and Lincoln. Y.S. (Eds.) Handbook of Qualitative Research. (3rd edition) (pp. 651-680). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

• Clandinin, D. J. and Connelly, F. M. (1994). Personal experience methods. In N.K. Denzin and Y.S. Lincoln (Eds) Handbook of Qualitative Research (1st edition) (pp.413-427). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

• Denzin, N. K. and Lincoln, Y.S. (2008) (Eds.). Collecting and Interpreting Qualitative Materials. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

• Lyons, N. (1998). Constructing narratives for understanding: Using portfolio interviews to scaffold teacher reflection. In N. Lyons (Ed.). With portfolio in hand: Validating the new teacher professionalism (pp. 103-119). New York: Teachers College Press.

Journal Issues and Articles

• Carger, C. (Ed.) (2008). Before there were numbers: The power of narrative inquiry. Thresholds in Education, 34.

• Connelly, F.M., & Clandinin, D. J. (1990). Stories of experience and narrative inquiry. Educational Researcher, 19 (5), 2-14.

• Jones, K. (2006). A biographic researcher in pursuit of an aesthetic: The use of arts-based (re)presentations in "performative" dissemination of life stories. Qualitative Sociology Review, 2(1), 66-85.

• Pamphilon, B. (1999). The zoom model: A dynamic framework for the anaysis of life histories. Qualitative Inquiry, 5(3), 393-410.

• Shari D., & Lau, L. (2007). Power and narrative. Narrative Inquiry, 17(1), 1 -11.

• Tierney, W.G. (2002). Get real: representing reality. Qualitative Studies in Education, 15(4), 385-398.

• Wolgemuth, J.R., & Donohue, R. (2006). Toward an inquiry of discomfort: Guiding transformation in “emancipatory” narrative research”. Qualitative Inquiry, 12(5), 1012-1021.

Websites

• The Center for Narrative Inquiry

• The Centre for Narrative Research

• A list of Qualitative Research Journals