Abstracts
Abstract
As a relational epistemology and research methodology, narrative inquiry is one way that people come to know experience through story. Social workers are experienced in working with people’s stories, yet there is a dearth of literature where both social work and narrative inquiry are discussed alongside each other. This paper highlights the particular ways that a researcher commits to living and understanding a narrative view of experience as they engage in research that is relational. It explains some of the language that narrative inquirers use to describe their work, and uses examples from a social work doctoral dissertation to demonstrate the methodological touchstones of a social work narrative inquiry. It concludes with an invitation for social workers to consider narrative inquiry as a process that can guide and advance both clinical practice and social justice work.
Keywords:
- Abortion,
- storytelling,
- intersubjectivity,
- narrative,
- social justice,
- reflexivity
Résumé
En tant qu’épistémologie relationnelle et méthodologie de recherche, l’enquête narrative est une façon pour les gens d’apprendre à connaître l’expérience par l’histoire. Les travailleurs sociaux ont l’habitude de travailler avec les récits des gens, mais il y a toutefois une pénurie de documentation où le travail social et la recherche narrative sont discutés en parallèle. Le présent document met en lumière les façons particulières dont un chercheur s’engage à vivre et à comprendre une vision narrative de l’expérience lorsqu’il entreprend une recherche relationnelle. Il explique certains des termes utilisés par les chercheurs narratifs pour décrire leur travail et utilise des exemples tirés d’une thèse de doctorat en travail social pour illustrer les pierres de touche méthodologiques d’une enquête narrative en travail social. Il se termine par une invitation aux travailleurs sociaux à repenser l’enquête narrative comme un processus pouvant guider et faire progresser le travail clinique et la justice sociale.
Mots-clés :
- Avortement,
- récit,
- intersubjectivité,
- narration,
- justice sociale,
- réflexivité
Appendices
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