The following are new to this edition: New exemplary cases, including Menon’s autobiographical narrative inquiry as the starting point for framing a research puzzle and justifying a study, Chung’s account of a study that begins with ...

"The literature on narrative inquiry has been, until now, widely scattered and theoretically incomplete. Clandinin and Connelly have created a major tour de force. This book is lucid, fluid, beautifully argued, and rich in examples.

Central to each narrative inquiry is the ongoing engagement between researchers and participants; this is visible in narrative inquirers' commitment to co-compositions.

This book will be an invaluable resource for researchers and graduate students, and professional researchers in both educational and healthcare settings. .

Introducing key ideas of narrative inquiry, this is the first book to explore in depth the theoretical underpinnings of the methodology.

These stories show us an alternative way of attending to what counts in schools, shifting away from the school as a business model towards an idea of schools as places to engage citizenship and to attend to the wholeness of people’s lives ...

This book extends Connelly and Clandinin’s groundbreaking work on “personal practical knowledge” as the way through which teachers hone their craft— Teachers’ Professional Knowledge Landscapes (1995).

In this book the authors take on the essential task of developing a conceptual framework for the application of relational ethics to narrative inquiry.

Focusing on school as place where curriculum is made to realizing the ways children and families are engaged as curriculum makers in homes, in communities, and in the spaces in-between, outside of school, this book investigates the tensions ...