ERIC Number: ED656081
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Publication Date: 2023
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An Educational Perspective on Narrative and Ethnography: A Monolithic Study
Attia Noor
International Society for Technology, Education, and Science, Paper presented at the International Conference on Social and Education Sciences (IConSES) (Las Vegas, NV, Oct 19-22, 2023)
Narrative inquiry is a type of qualitative research that explores human experiences through lived or told stories to understand a phenomenon. Narrative researchers collect data through spoken or written stories and life experiences of an individual (subject). The data is examined in chronological order to understand the meaning of the phenomenon being studied (Creswell, 2013). The researcher unfolds the hidden meanings in spoken or lived stories by analyzing the data in relation to social and cultural context. Narrative methodology is used to explain the behaviors or experiences of either an individual or a small group of people. Ethnography is a holistic approach to the study of cultural systems using both qualitative and quantitative methods with ontological and epistemological properties. It is greatly dependent on fieldwork. It is a process of discovery, making inferences, and continuing inquiries to achieve emic validity, while being an iterative process of learning episodes. It is also an open-ended emergent learning process, and not a rigid investigator-controlled experiment. [For the full proceedings, see ED656038.]
Descriptors: Personal Narratives, Ethnography, Learning Processes, Epistemology, Validity, Holistic Approach, Inferences, Social Environment, Cultural Context, Research Methodology, Postmodernism
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