INTRODUCTION What is known about male identity or intergenerational relationships between male family members? And how can rural Australian men be engaged in essential health research? METHODS Narrative inquiry is proposed as an ideal means for engaging in the process of uncovering men's storied reflections about their lives, relationships and identity. RESULTS The article begins with guida...

A qualitative research wave has swept through the social sciences during the last decades. Interviews, textual analyses and natural observations have come into widespread use as modes of inquiry. The qualitative research movement is interdisciplinary, and an opening of the social sciences to the humanities has taken place, drawing on hermeneutics, as well as narrative, discursive, conversationa...

OBJECTIVES Curriculum reform poses significant challenges for medical schools across the globe. Understanding the medical educator's personal and lived experience of curriculum change is paramount. This paper illustrates the use of narrative inquiry as a means of exploring the author's own evolving professional identity as a medical educator engaged in planning and leading curriculum reform and...

We explore the design issues of adaptive hyperbooks in relation to how using hypermedia technology changes the nature of the traditional book. To address some of these issues we have developed and tested MetaLinks, an authoring tool and web server for adaptive hyperbooks. The system is designed to: 1) support inquiry, exploratory, or curiosity-driven learning in richly interconnected material; ...

The present study is aimed at exploring students’ experiences of using left-right game in writing narrative text. Narrative inquiry used to capture games told their frames. This concerned one class the tenth grade purposively determined senior high school students Indonesian context which consist thirty-one students. Student’s frame, semi structured interview and observation are instruments emp...

OBJECTIVES In Western society, the narrative of decline dominates the aging process. We know very little about the complexities of how people resist this narrative. The purpose of this article is to understand how a group of mature natural bodybuilders resisted the narrative of decline. METHODS In-depth life story interviews were conducted with 13 natural bodybuilders aged between 50 and 73 y...

An interactive narrative is an education, training, or entertainment experience, based on a narrative that is guided by authorial intent. Interactive narratives have two important characteristics: some form of authorial intent as represented by the narrative structure and an affordance for autonomy of player characters. Technologies for constructing engaging interactive narratives have been spr...

Many have proposed that autobiographical stories do more than describe a pre-existing self. Sometimes narrators can change who they are, in part, by telling stories about themselves. But how does this narrative self-construction happen? Most explanations rely on the representational function of autobiographical discourse. These representational accounts of narrative self-construction are necess...

Teacher identity is one of the essential aspects influencing form and quality educational processes. The present study examines narratives writers, Devia, an English teacher, Trisa, throughout their learning teaching experiences process that were involved as they negotiated identities teachers. data collected from autobiographical narrative Devia well intensive life-history interviews with Tris...