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How is storytelling used in Narrative Inquiry?
My familiarization with the Narrative Inquiry method began with one of the oldest works on this topic by its pioneers, Connelly and Clandinin (1990), who situated this methodology within educational research. Narrative Inquiry is a qualitative methodology in which a researcher attempts to gain a deep and nuanced understanding of the participants’ experiences through the analysis of their narratives in a collaborative and reflective process of knowledge co-construction (Clandinin, 2023). In this methodology, field texts (which is what Connelly and Clandinin called data) are collected in a number of ways, including field notes, transcripts of interviews, photographs, paintings, writings, and other sorts of artifacts (Clandinin, 2023). Therefore, stories or narratives can be collected through numerous mediums, which, combined together, represent a holistic account of the studied experience. As Clandinin (2023) points out, field texts are subjective and representative of the experiences of both researchers and participants.
