ABSTRACT

Over the last more than two decades narrative has gained momentum in two ways – generally, as a term occurring in educational research literature, DQGPRUHVSHFL¿FDOO\DQGUHFHQWO\DVDQDVFHQWUHVHDUFKPHWKRGRORJ\LQLWV own right with a potential for use across a wide range of disciplines (from philosophy, education, theology and psychology to economics, medicine, biology and environmental science). Narrative inquiry is set in human stories of experience. It provides researchers with a rich framework through which they can investigate the ways humans experience the world depicted through their stories. To paraphrase the French philosopher and existentialist JeanPaul Sartre from his book Words (1964):

People are always tellers of tales. They live surrounded by their stories and The stories of others; they see everything That happens to them through those stories And they try to live their lives as If they were recounting them.