Compare and contrast the research participants, methods, and analysis that occur in narrative inquiry and case study research.
What will be an ideal response?
Ans: In narrative inquiry research, the participants are people whose stories the researcher wants to hear. In a narrative inquiry the researcher begins relationships with the participants in the middle of their ongoing personal and professional lives. The participants share with the researcher their lived and told stories and the researcher asks questions about the stories. Both participants are changed by the process. Together they develop an inquiry space and develop field texts based on the experiences. These field texts are the data of narrative inquiry; they are the answers to the research puzzle. The field texts are used to compose the interim and final research texts which are summaries of the findings of the narrative inquiry that are focused on disseminating results to different audiences.
In case study research participants can be individuals or groups of individuals with clear identities who also share an event. Case study research can focus on understanding a particular case, generalizing from the case to similar cases, or concurrently studying multiple cases at the same time. In case study research, the researcher uses multiple methods (interviews, observations, questionnaires, tests, etc.) and collects multiple types of data. Relevant findings are used to answer specific research questions as they relate to the case as it is defined. Analysis can occur by looking for themes and patterns in a single case (within-case analysis) or by looking for similarities and differences across multiple cases.
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