5. Multiple identities
• Our narratives can not have a single strand
• Need to know -What brings us together in
community?
• To help decide what education should
mean? No longer a consensus
9. Narrative Inquiry
investigates:
• How to compose a story that represents
experiences truthfully while also
acknowledging that we can never really
tell the whole truth
10. Narrative Inquiry
investigates:
• How to compose a story that represents
experiences truthfully while also
acknowledging that we can never really
tell the whole truth
11. Narrative Inquiry
investigates:
How to compose a story that represents
experiences truthfully while also
acknowledging that we can never really
tell the whole truth
12. Narrative Inquiry
investigates:
• is one of trying to make sense of life as
lived. (Clandinin & Connelly, 2000)
• focus on composition of a story
as a way to represent experiences
13. Consider the human subject-
• Who are they?
• Write an account from their POV (or the POV of
the subject being photographed)
• Context: where when, by whom, why was it
taken?
• What are the aesthetics of the image? Does it
conform to a convention? What technologies were
used?
• What is the photo’s currency? Who was it made
for? Where is it kept? Who viewed it? Who has it
now?
17. • What are the aesthetics of the image? Does it
conform to a convention? What technologies were used?
18.
19.
20. “...it may be that to understand
ourselves as fictions, is to understand
ourselves as fully as we can,” Jeanette Winterston
21. Ted Aoki “Whenever I write a story,
I not only produce a narrative but
I’m reproducing myself...
the narrating acts upon me,
and I’m changing”
22. Whenever I compose a visual narrative,
I not only produce a narrative but
I’m reproducing myself...
the narrating acts upon me,
and I’m changing.
23. Forms of
Narrative Inquiry
• autobiography
• action research
• life writing
• ethnography, biography,
• art/o/graphy
24. Art/o/graphy
• It brings together the art of observation,
reflection and creative expression through a
process of discovery and documentation.
• How do our photos shape our memory?
• How are experiences articulated through
images?
• What is the role of visual awareness?
27. Place, Time, Self/other
• Place - indoor/outdoor
• enclosed, claustrophobia, open spaces, city/
country, relationships between objects in
places
• feelings created by place
• How can you use composition, clr, textures
to emphasize place/space or lack of it?