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Critical Narrative Inquiry

Critical narrative inquiry is a qualitative research approach that collects and analyses personal stories to expose how social structures, power relations, and systemic inequities shape individual experience. It merges the interpretive richness of narrative inquiry with the emancipatory commitments of critical theory, asking not only what happened in a life but also why — and whose interests are served by dominant stories remaining untold or unquestioned.

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Critical Narrative Inquiry
Taxonomic method record · process-pipeline / qualitative
  • Clandinin, D. J., & Connelly, F. M. (2000). Narrative Inquiry: Experience and Story in Qualitative Research. Jossey-Bass. · ISBN 978-0787943999
  • Kincheloe, J. L., & McLaren, P. (2002). Rethinking Critical Theory and Qualitative Research. In Y. Zou & E. T. Trueba (Eds.), Ethnography and Schools: Qualitative Approaches to the Study of Education (pp. 87–138). Rowman & Littlefield. · URL
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