ABSTRACT
Autobiographical inquiries as narrative beginnings have long been central to engaging in narrative inquiry. Narrative inquiry, grounded within the three-dimensional narrative inquiry space, has a strong focus on temporality and the future consequences of processes of inquiry. Autobiographical narrative inquiries keep us awake to how we are shaped by communities of inquiry. It is Dewey's conception of experience, with its criteria of interaction and continuity within situations that draws attention to the importance of temporality and the always-becoming processes of experience and, consequently, understandings of narrative inquiry as partial, tentative, and opens to the possibility of otherwise. Rosiek and Pratt go on to discuss the methodological shifts from a focus on processes of description to processes of representation, noting that 'the term re-presentation acknowledges the ontological gulf between description and what is described; it emphasizes the role communities of inquiry play in constituting the objects of their inquiry'.
