While readin this article, I was tryin to understand what the article would be about other than the vague title "Narrative Inquiry" so as I began reading, I saw that the author felt it would be easier to explain through examples.. While reading I picked out four quotes that I found interesting. (in no particular order, here goes..
1. "As narrative inquirers, we share our writing on a work-in-progress basis with response communities. By this, we mean that we ask others to read our work and to respond in ways that help us see other meanings that might lead to further retelling." I thought this was a great quote to describe this class with our twitterives. We continue to work on the assignment day after day and rely on the feedback from others to make changes. This also applies to my Writing Children's Stories class because we are doin something simmilar by reading story ideas to the class to see what they think.
2. "We wrote that to experience an experieflce--that is, to do research into an experience-is to experience it simultaneously in these four ways and to ask questions pointing each way." I dont know if I interpreted this right, but by reading it I assumed they meant when you write about experiences, you must recall the moment and "research" it to remember vivid details so that the reader or audience can understand and experience it as if they were present?
3. This one is kind of broad but.. "Our purpose in giving this example is to demonstrate the use of terms that structure our three-dimensional narrative inquiry space" I chose this quote because it helped me to understand why they went back and forth between past and present. I usually get confused with these types of stories.
4. "Sometimes, this means that our own unnamed, perhaps secret, stories come to light as much as do those of our participants. This confronting of ourselves in our narrative past makes us vulnerable as inquirers because it makes secret stories public." okay again I could be way off, but, I think this is that we need to step out of our confort zone once in a while and tell our stories even if they are embarrassing.
Did I mention that I am terrible at intreperting things?
1. "As narrative inquirers, we share our writing on a work-in-progress basis with response communities. By this, we mean that we ask others to read our work and to respond in ways that help us see other meanings that might lead to further retelling." I thought this was a great quote to describe this class with our twitterives. We continue to work on the assignment day after day and rely on the feedback from others to make changes. This also applies to my Writing Children's Stories class because we are doin something simmilar by reading story ideas to the class to see what they think.
2. "We wrote that to experience an experieflce--that is, to do research into an experience-is to experience it simultaneously in these four ways and to ask questions pointing each way." I dont know if I interpreted this right, but by reading it I assumed they meant when you write about experiences, you must recall the moment and "research" it to remember vivid details so that the reader or audience can understand and experience it as if they were present?
3. This one is kind of broad but.. "Our purpose in giving this example is to demonstrate the use of terms that structure our three-dimensional narrative inquiry space" I chose this quote because it helped me to understand why they went back and forth between past and present. I usually get confused with these types of stories.
4. "Sometimes, this means that our own unnamed, perhaps secret, stories come to light as much as do those of our participants. This confronting of ourselves in our narrative past makes us vulnerable as inquirers because it makes secret stories public." okay again I could be way off, but, I think this is that we need to step out of our confort zone once in a while and tell our stories even if they are embarrassing.
Did I mention that I am terrible at intreperting things?