The Making of "Coming to Narrative": Blended Genres in the Human Sciences
Affiliation
University of South Florida
Department or Program
Communications
Start Date
15-4-2017 3:00 PM
End Date
15-4-2017 4:30 PM
Presentation Keywords/Areas
Emerging trends in Qualitative Research
Abstract
This session will focus on narrative inquiry as a blended genre of storytelling in the human sciences. What are the advantages and disadvantages of blurring distinctions between arts and sciences? What is the difference between understanding yourself as a writer and understanding yourself as a researcher? I will review how I used "writing as inquiry" in composing Coming to Narrative, a book that received national and international best book awards. We will discuss together the challenges for the next generation of writers of qualitative inquiry. This will include qualitative inquiry as a conversational dynamic; the place of imagination in qualitative writing; forms for expressing and representing emotional truths; ethics of relational storytelling; the qualitative storyteller as an artist and qualitative inquiry as a moral art and science.
The Making of "Coming to Narrative": Blended Genres in the Human Sciences
This session will focus on narrative inquiry as a blended genre of storytelling in the human sciences. What are the advantages and disadvantages of blurring distinctions between arts and sciences? What is the difference between understanding yourself as a writer and understanding yourself as a researcher? I will review how I used "writing as inquiry" in composing Coming to Narrative, a book that received national and international best book awards. We will discuss together the challenges for the next generation of writers of qualitative inquiry. This will include qualitative inquiry as a conversational dynamic; the place of imagination in qualitative writing; forms for expressing and representing emotional truths; ethics of relational storytelling; the qualitative storyteller as an artist and qualitative inquiry as a moral art and science.
Presentation Type and Comments
90-minute workshop