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9780759101432

Lives in Context The Art of Life History Research

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    9780759101432

  • ISBN10:

    0759101434

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2001-07-30
  • Publisher: AltaMira Press
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Summary

The reflexive turn in qualitative research has transformed the process of doing life history research. No longer are research subjects examined through the lens of the all-knowing but supposedly invisible researcher. As Ardra Cole and Gary Knowles point out in this fresh introduction to conducting life history research, the process is now one of mutuality, empathy, sensitivity and caring. The authors carry the novice researcher through the steps of conducting life history research--from conceptualizing the project to the various means of presenting results--with an eye toward understanding the complex relationship between participant and researcher and how that shapes the project. In addition to examples from their own research, Cole and Knowles bring in the work of a dozen novice researchers who explain the challenges they faced in developing their own life history projects in a wide variety of settings. Well written, interesting, and pedagogically sound, Lives in Context is the ideal text for teaching life history research to students and an important reference for the bookshelf of all qualitative researchers.

Author Biography

Ardra L. Cole and I. Garv Knowles are both educational researchers at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education

Table of Contents

Preface vii
Beginnings: Researching the Professor: Thomas 1(8)
J. Gary Knowles
PART 1: Exploring Method
What Is Life History Research?
9(16)
Principles Guiding Life History Researching
25(20)
Beginning a Life History Research Project
45(25)
``Doing'' Life History Research
70(23)
Preparing to Make Sense of Gathered Life History Information
93(19)
Making Sense of and Representing Lives in Context
112(19)
PART 2: Experiencing Method
Lessons from Nurses' Lives
131(6)
Renee Sarchuk Will
Responsibilities to Community: Relationality and Mutuality with Home-Educating Families
137(8)
J. Gary Knowles
Research as Relationship
145(7)
Jacquie Aston
Fidelity and Ethical Ideals
152(12)
Kathleen Gates
Kathryn Church
Cathy Crowe
Telling ``Inside'' Stories: The Paradox of Researcher Privilege
164(6)
Ardra L. Cole
Going Deep: Intersecting the Self as Researcher and Researched
170(7)
Avi Rose
A Life History as Artistic Interpretation
177(7)
James A. Muchmore
Reflections on ``Our Stories'': Women in Cardiac Rehabilitation
184(8)
Lori Ebbesen
Researching First Nations Educators through Presence, Collaboration, and Advocacy
192(10)
Jeff Orr
Compelled to Honor Privacy: Reflections from Researching in a Nursing Home
202(6)
Elizabeth Oates Schuster
Insights and Inspiration from an Artist's Work, Envisioning and Portraying Lives in Context
208(7)
J. Gary Knowles
Suzanne Thomas
Rereading ``Anne'': Using Images in an Artful Inquiry
215(8)
Maura McIntyre
Moments in Time
223(7)
Ilze Arielle Matiss
Endings: Writing the Professor: Thomas 230(3)
J. Gary Knowles
References 233(16)
Author Index 249(4)
Subject Index 253(6)
About the Contributors 259

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