Christopher Johns 
Reflexive Narrative [PDF ebook] 
Self-Inquiry Toward Self-Realization and Its Performance

Reflexive Narrative: Self-Inquiry Toward Self-Realization and Its Performance is latest addition to the Qualitative Research Methods series. Author Christopher Johns describes this unique method and its developmental approach to research to enable researchers’ self-realization however that might be expressed. This method focuses on systematizing the reflective process and providing structure while still remaining flexible to the needs of individual researchers and projects. Researchers collect data through reflections on everyday experiences and then selectively use the evidence of researcher’s insights. The text starts out with a brief introduction to narrative research and reflexivity, situating the method within the larger context of organizational practices. The next chapters introduce the steps for reflexive narrative research and walk readers through the movements of the reflexive narrative process, writing, reflection, dialogue, guidance, weaving, and audiencing. Additional coverage of ethics and research examples provide a foundation for application of the method to individual research. A chapter on structuring the method for a doctoral thesis furthers the applied nature of this method. Three extracts from studies provide research examples across several social science disciplines, including nursing and education. For students and researchers alike looking for new approaches to reflexive methods and looking to expand their ideas about self-research in a qualitative context,  
Reflexive Narrative provides a starting place for their own examination of self in the context of research.

Tabella dei contenuti

Prologue

Acknowledgments

About the Author

Chapter 1: Contempt: A Barrier to Realizing Leadership

Preamble

The Narrative

Afterword

Chapter 2: The Reflexive Narrative Bricolage

Reflexive Narrative

The Research Spectrum

Bricolage

Reflective Theory

Critical Social Science

Hermeneutics

Narrative Theory

Feminist Slant

Women’s Ways of Knowing

Non-Western Influence

Literary Theory

Summary

Activity

Chapter 3: The Six Dialogical Movements

The Six Dialogical Movements

Dialogue

The Hermeneutic Spiral

Summary

Activity

Chapter 4: Writing Self: The First Dialogical Movement

Recall

Mimesis and Anti-Mimesis

Writing

Journal Descriptions

Summary

Activity

Chapter 5: Structured Reflection: The Second Dialogical Movement

Structured Reflection

Mike

Applying the MSR Cues

Summary

Activity

Chapter 6: Drawing Tentative Insights

Conceptual Maps

The Framing Perspectives

Developmental Framing

Summary

Activity

Chapter 7: Cocreating Insights

Dialogue With Extant Knowledge: The Third Dialogical Movement

Guidance: The Fourth Dialogical Movement

The Community of Inquiry

No Formal Guidance

Summary

Activity

Chapter 8: Weaving the Reflexive Narrative: The Fifth Dialogical Movement

Narrative Time Span

Being Creative

Magical Realism

Writing From the Body

Showing Versus Telling

Using Tense and Dialogue

Giving Voice to Others

Using Metaphor

Images and Art

Narration

Writing for Performance

Summary

Activity

Chapter 9: Through a Glass Darkly

Preamble

Through a Glass Darkly Narrative

Activity

Chapter 10: Coherence and Ethics

Coherence

Eyes of Knowing

Criteria

The Validity Question

Rhizomatic Validity

Ethics

Summary

Chapter 11: Audiencing: The Sixth Dialogical Movement

Performance

Summary

Activity

Chapter 12: Structuring the Reflexive Thesis

Chapter 1 Background

Chapter 2 Narrative Construction

Chapter 3 The Reflexive Narrative

Chapter 4 Deepening the Insights

Chapter 5 Reflection on the Journey

MSc Leadership in Health Care

Ph D Program

Ph D Studies

Chapter 13: Concluding Words

Appendix A: Illustration of Adenike Akinbode’s Reflexive Narrative Writing

Appendix B: Extract From Margaret Graham’s Reflexive Narrative Thesis

Appendix C: Reflexive Narrative Publications

References

Index

Circa l’autore

Christopher Johns is an internationally acknowledged pioneer in developing reflective practices in health care practice, educational curriculum, and reflexive narrative research. Now an independent consultant, he was previously professor of nursing at the University of Bedfordshire, UK between 1991 and 2016. He convened the International Reflective Practice conferences between 1994 and 2016 and the Reflective Practice Forum in 2011 as a uniquely dialogical approach to conferencing. His recent books are Mindful Leadership (2016) and the fifth edition of his seminal text Becoming a Reflective Practitioner (2017). He lives in Cornwall with his wife Otter.