Narratives and fictions in educational research

Taking a fresh approach to educatonal research, this volume considers the role and use of literary and ethnographic approaches. There is a growing interest in the use of narrative and fictional methods and this book sets out to: locate narrative and fictional methods within the traditions of education research; exemplify the use of narrative in studies of educational and social settings; explain the processes of composing narrative and fictional research.

Author Notes

Before moving to the University of Sheffield, Peter Clough taught for many years in a number of mainstream and special schools as well as overseas

Series editor's preface	p. ix
Acknowledgements	p. xiv
Preface: The Man with the Blue Guitar	p. 1
1 Stories from educational settings: an introduction	p. 4
The structure of the book	p. 5
How to read this book	p. 6
Writing stories from educational settings	p. 7
2 The map is not the terrain ...	p. 11
Methods and maps	p. 13
Language and identity	p. 16
Stories of 'truths': senses composed	p. 18
Note	p. 19
3 Klaus	p. 20
4 Molly	p. 25
5 Rob	p. 37
6 Bev	p. 48
7 Lolly: the final word	p. 54
8 Hard to tell: reading the stories	p. 60
Introduction	p. 60
A reading of Klaus	p. 61
A reading of Molly	p. 65
A reading of Rob	p. 69
A reading of Bev	p. 73
A reading of Lolly	p. 77
Note	p. 80
9 Narratives of educational practice	p. 81
10 'To the things themselves!'	p. 87
The experience of meaning	p. 88
Consciousness provides objects	p. 88
The particular and the general	p. 90
'To the things themselves!' (Husserl 1960)	p. 91
The problem of evaluation	p. 92
Fiction and social research: a sketch	p. 95
References	p. 101
Index	p. 106

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