Leavy, P. (2014). Method meets art, second edition: Arts-based research practice. Retrieved from http://ebookcentral.proquest.comCreated from usf on 2018-08-27 09:02:12.
“Narrative researchers attempt to avoid the objectification of research participants and aim to preserve the complexity of human experience (Josselson, 2006). The turn to narrative can be attributed to a confluence of other factors as well. Stefinee Pinnegar and J. Gary Daynes (2007) note four converging phenomena with respect to the turn to narrative inquiry: (1) the relationship of the researched and researcher, (2) the move from numbers to words as data, (3) a shift from the general to the particular, and (4) the emergence of new epistemologies.” p. 42
Just thinking:
So far, qualitative researchers effectively defended the importance of their subjectivity and solidified their presence in own studies. Similarly, we stretched the boundaries of what counts as data by turning to narratives, music, drawings, even fiction, and other forms of artistic expression. How, then, do we define research? What makes a difference between the work of a “proper” social scientist and a journalist? Why are some pieces beelined into academic databases and others exist in digital spaces of the world wide web?
Is it the degree that makes researcher a researcher? The formal training? Does one have to have a degree in teaching to be a teacher? Does one have to go through chef training to bring superior culinary experiences and then discuss their methods and undergirding cultural experiences? Is “research” a term either deliberately sustained or occurred as a by-product of neoliberal worldview?