Emden C
Flinders University, South Australia.
Collegian. 1998 Apr;5(2):30-5. doi: 10.1016/s1322-7696(08)60281-4.
Narrative inquiry is gaining momentum in the field of nursing. As a research approach it does not have any single heritage of methodology and its practitioners draw upon diverse sources of influence. Central to all narrative inquiry however, is attention to the potential of stories to give meaning to people's lives, and the treatment of data as stories. This is the first of two papers on the topic and addresses the theoretical influences upon a particular narrative inquiry into nursing scholars and scholarship. The second paper, Conducting a narrative analysis, describes the actual narrative analysis as it was conducted in this same study. Together, the papers provide sufficient detail for others wishing to pursue a similar approach to do so, or to develop the ideas and procedures according to their own way of thinking. Within this first theoretical paper, perspectives from Jerome Bruner (1987) and Wade Roof (1993) are outlined. These relate especially to the notion of stories as 'imaginative constructions' and as 'cultural narratives' and as such, highlight the profound importance of stories as being individually and culturally meaningful. As well, perspectives on narrative inquiry from nursing literature are highlighted. Narrative inquiry in this instance lies within the broader context of phenomenology.
叙事探究在护理领域正日益受到关注。作为一种研究方法，它没有单一的方法论传统，其从业者借鉴了多种影响来源。然而，所有叙事探究的核心在于关注故事赋予人们生活意义的潜力，以及将数据视为故事来处理。这是关于该主题的两篇论文中的第一篇，探讨了对一项关于护理学者和学术研究的特定叙事探究的理论影响。第二篇论文《进行叙事分析》描述了在同一研究中实际进行的叙事分析。这两篇论文共同为其他希望采用类似方法的人提供了足够的细节，以便他们能够这样做，或者根据自己的思维方式发展这些想法和程序。在这第一篇理论性论文中，概述了杰罗姆·布鲁纳（1987）和韦德·鲁夫（1993）的观点。这些观点特别涉及故事作为“想象性建构”和“文化叙事”的概念，因此突出了故事在个人和文化层面具有意义的深远重要性。此外，还强调了护理文献中关于叙事探究的观点。在这种情况下，叙事探究处于现象学的更广泛背景之中。
