Fictional Characters in Narrative Research Writing

Document Type

Contribution to Book

Publication Date

2013

Publication Title

A Companion to Research in Education

First Page

549

Last Page

553

Abstract

My doctoral dissertation explored different approaches that narrative researchers take when restorying, or retelling, the personal narratives shared by the participants in their research studies. I explored one of these approaches – restorying through character – with graduate students in a narrative inquiry course. The students experimented with using fictional characters to re-present both their experiences and ideas encountered in course readings. My vignette re-presents some of these students’ writing experiences in a fictional dialogue. The dialogue is written to both demonstrate – and experience firsthand – some challenges and benefits of re-presenting storied data through texts driven by fictional characters.

DOI

10.1007/978-94-007-6809-3_71

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