This article presents an innovative narrative inquiry study carried out in a primary school Aotearoa New Zealand with three young people who provide insights into how they perceive, construct, give meaning to, and make sense of their own emotions. The analysis from this research draws on Foucauldian scholarship to examine the narratives that construct about feelings are shaped by dominant psy-d...

In this article, we develop, through drawing forward fragments of our experiences, a concept reciprocity as always situated within the relational ontology narrative inquiry. Reciprocity is most commonly understood transactional sense, an exchange goods. We show important aspects in inquiry, including importance intentionally creating and responding to spaces where occurs can be sustained over t...

This paper engages and persuades social researchers to use Participatory Narrative Inquiry (PNI) in their sensitive research. PNI is a pertinent approach which situates effective communication at the heart of inquiry – it includes form personal interaction based on language, thought, action produced an appropriate climate that allows people clarify situation generate solutions. Yet, rarely used...

This paper documents a fragment of story in my life that plays significant role shaping identity as an English teacher and influencing me deciding to become career choice. study's research question is 'how why did I decide teacher?'. study was conducted using the "narrative inquiry" method underthe qualitative paradigm. The carried out by describing individual's life, collecting retelling parts...

This article offers a framework for collaborative family-centered practice that can rein-vigorate our work with families who have not responded to more traditional approaches. Collaborative Helping is grounded in family-centered principles that include: striving for cultural curiosity, believing in resourcefulness, working in partnership, and making our work more accountable to the clients we s...