Troubling method : narrative research as being / Petra Munro Hendry, Roland W. Mitchell, and Paul William Eaton.

"this book is part of the peter lang education list".

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Section I: Relationships as Being in the World -- Introduction to Section 1 / Paul William Eaton -- 1. The future of narrative / Petra Munro Hendry -- 2. Narrative inquiry: stories lived, stories told / Roland W. Mitchell -- Dialogue interlude 1 -- Section II: Listening as Being in the World / Paul William Eaton -- 3. "Soft ears" and hard topics: Race, disciplinarity, and voice in Higher Education / Roland W. Mitchell -- 4. Continuing dilemmas of life history research: A reflexive account of Feminist Qualitative Inquiry / Petra Munro Hendry -- Dialogue Interlude 2 -- Section III: Unknowing as Being in the World -- Introduction to Section III / Paul William Eaton -- 5. Narrative in inquiry / Petra munro hendry -- 6. "Why didn't they get it? did they have to get it?" "Did they have to get it?: What reader response theory has to offer narrative research and pedagogy / Becky Atkinson and Roland W. Mitchell -- Dialogue Interlude 3.

"This book seeks to extract narrative inquiry from method. The shift to a post-humanist, post-qualitative moment is not just another stage in modernism that seeks to 'improve' knowledge production, but is a shift to understanding research as an ontology, a way of being in the world, rather than a mode of production. Fundamental assumptions of research: method, data, analysis, and findings are deconstructed and reconfigured as a mode of relational intra-action. This book is constructed as a dialogue between the three authors, focusing on their work as qualitative, narrative researchers. The authors revisit six previously published works in which they grapple with the contradictions and ironies of engaging in pragmatist, critical, feminist qualitative research. After a lengthy introduction which problematizes 'method', the book is divided into three sections, each with two chapters that are bracketed by an introduction to the issues discussed in the chapters and then a 'dialogue interlude' in which the authors deliberate what makes possible the questions they are raising about method and narrative research. The three sections attend to the central premises of 'narrative research as being': 1) relationships 2) listening and 3) unknowing. This book is ideal for introductory or advanced courses in qualitative research, narrative inquiry, educational research, and those aimed at employing critical theories in qualitative and narrative inquiry"-- Provided by publisher.