narratives about the truth of narratives
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Narratives about the truth of narratives. OpettajanElämää. A narrative-biographical research team University of Oulu. TeacherLife. Hannu L. T. Heikkinen Rauno Huttunen Leena Syrjälä. Presented at the European Conference on Educational Research - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Presented at the European Conference on Educational ResearchUniversity College Dublin September 9th 2005
NETWORK 13 Philosophy of Education
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Action research reports are narrative in nature
• the beginning, the middle and the end • plot-elements of recognition (anagnorisis),
reversal (peripeteia) and suffering (pathos) (Aristotle 1958, 1452a-1452b).
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”The Truth”?
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Is ”The Truth” what is really needed?
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• reliability and validity
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• reliability and validity => credibility, persuasiveness, verisimilitude,
compellingness, explanatory power, moral persuasiveness, interactivity, vulnerability and therapeutic value (e.g. Hatch & Wisniewski 1995, 129; Ellis & Bochner 2000, 752 - 760).
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The classical truth theories…
Heikkinen, H., Kakkori, L. & Huttunen, R. 2001. This is my truth, tell me yours: Some aspects of action research quality in the light of truth theories. Educational Action Research 9 (1), 9 – 24.
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• The classical truth theories..?
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… or something else…
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• Richard Winter (ECER2000 Edinburgh):– reflexive principle– dialectical principle:
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• Richard Winter:– reflexive principle:
• the text is a world created by the writer, who is thoroughly aware of his creative role
• a reflexive researcher consciously reflects on his or her pre-insights
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• Richard Winter:– dialectical principle:
• from a (modernist) monologue into polyphony of voices• the social reality being constituted through an ongoing
interaction• different interpretations and voices – even dissonant
ones• the researcher wants to respect the complexity and
stratification of reality in his/her research report
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Principle of reflexivity Principle of dialectics Principle of historical continuity
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1. Principle of historical continuity
• Analysis of the history of action: how has the action evolved historically?
• Emplotment: how logically and coherently does the narrative proceed?
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2. Principle of reflexivity
• Subjective adequacy: what is the researcher’s relationship with his/her object of research like?
• Ontologic and epistemologic presumptions: what are the researcher’s presumptions of knowledge and reality?
• Transparency: how does the researcher describe his/her material and methods?
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3. Principle of dialectics
• Dialogue: how has the researcher’s insight developed in dialogue with others?
• Polyphony: how does the report present different voices and interpretations?
• Authenticity: how authentically the voices seem to have presented?
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1. Principle of historical continuity 2. Principle of reflexivity 3. Principle of dialectics
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… something still needed..?
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… something still needed..?
”What works is only true”
- William James
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4. Principle of workability
• Pragmatic quality: how well does the research succeed in creating workable practices?
• Criticalness: what kind of discussion does the research provoke?
• Ethics: how are ethical problems dealt with? • Empowerment: does the research make people
believe in their own capabilities and possibilities to act and thereby encourage new practices and actions?
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1. Principle of historical continuity 2. Principle of reflexivity 3. Principle of dialectics 4. Principle of workability
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… something still needed..?
Aristotle:Logos, ethos and pathos
Michael Quinn Patton (2002):”artistic and evocative criteria”
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5. Principle of evocativeness
• Evocativeness: how well does the research evoke mental images, memories or emotions related to the theme?
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1. Principle of historical continuity 2. Principle of reflexivity 3. Principle of dialectics 4. Principle of workability 5. Principle of evocativeness