What are some approaches to narrative analysis?
A12. Narrative analysis refers to the multiple ways that researchers describe or retell the narratives/stories that they collect or create during their narrative inquiries. Some general methods or approaches to narrative analysis include the following. • Narrative representation. Researchers collect data (through interview transcripts, field notes, autobiographical writing, and so) and then unify them by re-presenting them in the form or shape of a narrative/story. The created story may be seen as a narrative representation, explanation, or performance of the phenomenon under study. In other words, the creation of the story itself may be considered an act of narrative analysis (cf. Clandinin, 2007, p. xv). • Thinking with a story. Researchers may consider a story that they have collected or composed to be already complete rather than trying to go beyond it to make connections to other stories, literature reviews, theoretical frameworks, and so on. Thinking with a story means to experie
