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Narrative research actually covers a very wide range
of research approaches in terms of data collection and data analysis; and really depends on
the perspective of the researcher.
But essentially what narrative research is doing is
trying to understand the experiences
of the research participants -- their lived experiences
and sometimes their imagined experiences. How they see their future lives.
How they see themselves living their future lives, but from the perspective
of the research participants themselves.
So essentially what it means is trying to
discover the meaning
that our research participants make of their own lived experiences.
through the stories that they tell us as researchers.