Another breakout session from Open Education 2016 on the importance of Narrative in learning, and how to study and research it.
In a time when big data, analytics, and evidence-based practices dominate educational policy and practice, narrative research offers an important alternative framework from which to approach what it means to know and learn. Narrative research approaches knowledge as always situated in a given perspective; rather than claiming objectivity, narrative research investigates many given perspectives in depth, framing their intersections.
Social, networked and narrative research practices are not new and have been used traditionally in psychology, sociology, and other academic domains that focus on complex social dimensions that underpin all human functioning.