Narrative inquiry is a rapidly developing social sciences and humanities research methodology. In this paper we provide a brief history of this development, indicate some of the distinguishing features of different lines of narrative inquiry, and describe a practical line of work which explicitly addresses school-based research.
2025. The Importance of Narrative and Narrative Inquiry in Understanding Teacher Resilience. In Teacher and School Resilience in an Era of Uncertainty [Palgrave Studies on Leadership and Learning in Teacher Education, ], ► pp. 239 ff.
Grillia, Naya & Maria Daskolia
2025. Reimagining environmental education research through narrative inquiry as a relational ethical practice of care and reciprocity with teachers. Qualitative Research
Joshi, Puskar R.
2025. Storying and restorying experience to unpack multilingual learners’ barriers to schooling: Autobiographical narrative inquiry. NABE Journal of Research and Practice► pp. 1 ff.
Panda, Debadutta Kumar
2025. Bridging scalability and embeddedness: the role of knowledge-based practices in scaling up organizations. Knowledge Management Research & Practice► pp. 1 ff.
2025. Teaching on the Edge: TPACK and Professional Identity Formation in a Remote Island of Indonesia. Participatory Educational Research 12:1 ► pp. 175 ff.
Connelly, Michael, Shijing Xu & Chenkai Chi
2024. The Methodology of Narrative Inquiry in Teacher Education. In West-East Reciprocal Learning in Teacher Education [Intercultural Reciprocal Learning in Chinese and Western Education, ], ► pp. 35 ff.
Glover, Catherine
2024. Morality Retail: The Case of Dutch Store, Crafted Stories, and Its Common Good Strategy. In Fashion for the Common Good, ► pp. 107 ff.
Hickey, Paul J. & Qingbin Cui
2024. Tracing the career trajectories of architecture, engineering and construction (AEC) women leaders. Construction Management and Economics 42:4 ► pp. 289 ff.
Jiang, Lijuan, Yibing Liu & Haojun Guo
2024. The Cross-Cultural Reciprocal Learning Program’s Influence on Chinese Pre-service Teachers’ Reflective Competencies. In West-East Reciprocal Learning in Teacher Education [Intercultural Reciprocal Learning in Chinese and Western Education, ], ► pp. 241 ff.
Potocek, David
2024. Speaking for Purpose: A Case Study of Bilingual Immersion Pedagogy Within the Chinese EFL Context. In Reciprocal Learning between Canada and China in Language and Culture Education [Intercultural Reciprocal Learning in Chinese and Western Education, ], ► pp. 181 ff.
Yang, Luxin & Chen Li
2024. Tracing the Canada–China Sister Schools’ Reciprocal Learning Practices in Synchronous Communication: A Case Study. In Reciprocal Learning between Canada and China in Language and Culture Education [Intercultural Reciprocal Learning in Chinese and Western Education, ], ► pp. 27 ff.
Zhou, Rubing, Tianmiao Wang & Hanzhao Lin
2024. Climber, mediator, and marathoner: narrative inquiry of career motivation changes of pre-service CSL teachers throughout teaching practicum. Frontiers in Psychology 15
Cavieres-Fernández, Eduardo & Victor Figueroa-Farfan
2023. Urban High School Students’ Experiences of Participation as a Counterstory Constellation to Institutional and Policy Guidelines in Chile. Urban Education 58:3 ► pp. 490 ff.
Han, Xiao & Yuhua Bu
2023. What Makes a Good Teacher: One Female Educator’s Lived Experiences. In Learning, Leading, and the Best-Loved Self in Teaching and Teacher Education [Palgrave Studies on Leadership and Learning in Teacher Education, ], ► pp. 81 ff.
Holloway, Susan M., Shijing Xu & Simin Ma
2023. Chinese and Canadian preservice teachers in face-to-face dialogues: Situating teaching in cultural practices for West-East Reciprocal Learning. Teaching and Teacher Education 122 ► pp. 103930 ff.
Kelley, Michaelann & Gayle A. Curtis
2023. Collaborative Reflection, Knowledge, and Growth: Exploring Ongoing Teacher Learning Within Knowledge Communities. In Teaching and Teacher Education in International Contexts [Advances in Research on Teaching, ], ► pp. 255 ff.
Kelley, Michaelann, Gayle A. Curtis & Cheryl J. Craig
2023. Annals, Chronicles, and Narratives of Collaborative Professional Growth. In Exploring Meaningful and Sustainable Intentional Learning Communities for P-20 Educators [Advances in Educational Marketing, Administration, and Leadership, ], ► pp. 27 ff.
Perla, Loredana, Laura Sara Agrati & Viviana Vinci
2023. Curriculum Design and Teaching. In Approaches to Teaching and Teacher Education [Advances in Research on Teaching, ], ► pp. 97 ff.
Scaramuzzo, Peter, Julia E. Calabrese & Cheryl J. Craig
2023. A Narrative Inquiry Investigating Teacher Burnout at a Bronx New York Middle School in 2020. In Drawn to the Flame [Advances in Research on Teaching, ], ► pp. 27 ff.
Wandix-White, Diana
2023. Caring and Uncaring Teacher Practices: Examples From Past Offer Guidance for Present and Hope for Future. Urban Education 58:8 ► pp. 1853 ff.
Chan, Esther Yim Mei
2022. Enhancing Identity Construction Through Inquiry into Narratives. In Handbook of Research on Teacher Education, ► pp. 937 ff.
Craig, Cheryl J., Jing Li, Ambyr Rios, HyeSeung Lee & Rakesh M. Verma
2022. Wounded healer: The impact of a grant-supported scholarship on an underrepresented science, technology, engineering, and mathematics student’s career and life. Frontiers in Education 7
Kelley, Michaelann, Gayle A. Curtis, Cheryl J. Craig, Donna Reid & Annette Easley
2022. Reflection through critical friendship: Promoting growth of teachers. Frontiers in Education 7
Mokuria, Vicki G. & Alankrita Chhikara
2022. Narrative Inquiry as a Relational Methodology. In Conceptual Analyses of Curriculum Inquiry Methodologies [Advances in Educational Technologies and Instructional Design, ], ► pp. 1 ff.
Pereira, Andrew J. & Yanping Fang
2022. Research practice partnership for schools and universities. Asia Pacific Journal of Education 42:1 ► pp. 154 ff.
Xu, Shijing & Michael Connelly
2022. Reciprocal Learning in Teacher Education Between Canada and China in a Globalized Context. In The Palgrave Handbook of Teacher Education Research, ► pp. 1 ff.
Xu, Shijing & Michael Connelly
2023. Reciprocal Learning in Teacher Education Between Canada and China in a Globalized Context. In The Palgrave Handbook of Teacher Education Research, ► pp. 1207 ff.
2021. Using vulnerability as a decolonial catalyst to re-cast the teacher as human(e). Teaching in Higher Education 26:4 ► pp. 557 ff.
Brandão, Ana Carolina de Laurentiis
2021. First experiences of teaching EFL in metaphors. Teaching and Teacher Education 97 ► pp. 103214 ff.
Bu, Yuhua
2021. Friends from Afar. In Narrative Inquiry into Reciprocal Learning Between Canada-China Sister Schools, ► pp. 17 ff.
Ciuffetelli Parker, Darlene & Palmina Conversano
2021. Narratives of Systemic Barriers and Accessibility: Poverty, Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, and the Call for a Post-Pandemic New Normal. Frontiers in Education 6
Craig, Cheryl J., Paige K. Evans, Rakesh Verma, Donna W. Stokes & Jing Li
2021. In Praise of “Unsung Teachers”: Teachers' Influences on Students Enrolling in STEM Programs with the Intent of Entering STEM Careers. In Preparing Teachers to Teach the STEM Disciplines in America’s Urban Schools [Advances in Research on Teaching, ], ► pp. 135 ff.
Potvin, Leigh
2021. It’s not all rainbows and unicorns: Straight teacher allies reflect on privilege. Journal of LGBT Youth 18:3 ► pp. 273 ff.
Zhong, Cheng
2021. Leadership and Power. In Narrative Inquiry into Reciprocal Learning Between Canada-China Sister Schools, ► pp. 213 ff.
Auzenne-Curl, Chestin
2020. Fear, Fellowship, and Finding a Voice: An Autobiographical Narrative of Being and Becoming in an Established Research Community. In Cross-Disciplinary, Cross-Institutional Collaboration in Teacher Education [Palgrave Studies on Leadership and Learning in Teacher Education, ], ► pp. 97 ff.
Chi, Xiaohong
2020. Multi-Faceted Stories of Chinese Immigrant Families. In Cross-Cultural Experiences of Chinese Immigrant Mothers in Canada, ► pp. 35 ff.
Craig, Cheryl J., Gayle A. Curtis, Michaelann Kelley, P. Tim Martindell & M. Michael Pérez
2020. Evidencing School Reform Through School Portfolios (1998–2002). In Knowledge Communities in Teacher Education [Palgrave Studies on Leadership and Learning in Teacher Education, ], ► pp. 49 ff.
Zhu, Sijia Cynthia
2020. Mrs. Smith and Mr. Jun’s Reciprocal Learning Partnership. In Reciprocal Learning for Cross-Cultural Mathematics Education, ► pp. 67 ff.
Bu, Yuhua & Xiao Han
2019. Promoting the development of backbone teachers through University-School Collaborative Research: the case of New Basic Education (NBE) reform in China. Teachers and Teaching 25:2 ► pp. 200 ff.
Connelly, F. Michael & Shijing Xu
2019. Reciprocal Learning in the Partnership Project: From Knowing to Doing in Comparative Research Models. Teachers and Teaching 25:6 ► pp. 627 ff.
Xu, Shijing
2019. Reciprocal learning in teacher education between Canada and China. Teachers and Teaching 25:6 ► pp. 703 ff.
Huang, Ju
2018. Introduction. In Pre-Service Teacher Education and Induction in Southwest China, ► pp. 1 ff.
Huang, Ju
2018. Research Methodology: The Way of Narrative Inquiry. In Pre-Service Teacher Education and Induction in Southwest China, ► pp. 27 ff.
Moore, Deborah
2018. Children’s Imaginative Play Environments and Ecological Narrative Inquiry. In Handbook of Comparative Studies on Community Colleges and Global Counterparts [Springer International Handbooks of Education, ], ► pp. 1 ff.
Moore, Deborah
2020. Children’s Imaginative Play Environments and Ecological Narrative Inquiry. In Research Handbook on Childhoodnature [Springer International Handbooks of Education, ], ► pp. 311 ff.
Abrol, Bobby
2017. Interweaving Narratives of Personal and Professional Selves of a Beginning Teacher in India. In Crossroads of the Classroom [Advances in Research on Teaching, 28], ► pp. 197 ff.
Ciuffetelli Parker, Darlene & Cheryl J. Craig
2017. An International Inquiry. Urban Education 52:1 ► pp. 120 ff.
Khoo, Yishin
2017. Regenerating narrative inquiry for teacher growth on a Toronto-Shanghai Sister School partnership landscape. Frontiers of Education in China 12:2 ► pp. 180 ff.
Khoo, Yishin
2022. River Flowing and Fire Burning: Re-Storying Ann’s Developing Knowledge of Educating for Citizenship. In Educating for Citizenship in a Canada-China Sister School Reciprocal Learning Partnership, ► pp. 147 ff.
Khoo, Yishin
2022. Narrative Inquiry: A Way-Seeking Framework to Re-Search Teachers’ Knowledge of Educating for Citizenship. In Educating for Citizenship in a Canada-China Sister School Reciprocal Learning Partnership, ► pp. 15 ff.
Khoo, Yishin
2022. Conclusion. In Educating for Citizenship in a Canada-China Sister School Reciprocal Learning Partnership, ► pp. 185 ff.
Khoo, Yishin
2022. Introduction. In Educating for Citizenship in a Canada-China Sister School Reciprocal Learning Partnership, ► pp. 3 ff.
Khoo, Yishin
2022. Becoming Globally Competent Through Inter-School Reciprocal Learning Partnerships: An Inquiry Into Canadian and Chinese Teachers’ Narratives. Journal of Teacher Education 73:1 ► pp. 110 ff.
Morita-Mullaney, Trish
2017. Borrowing legitimacy as English learner (EL) leaders: Indiana’s 14-year history with English language proficiency standards. Language Testing 34:2 ► pp. 241 ff.
Xu, Shijing & F. Michael Connelly
2017. Reciprocal learning between Canada and China in teacher education and school education: Partnership studies of practice in cultural context. Frontiers of Education in China 12:2 ► pp. 135 ff.
Kane, Justine M.
2016. Young African American boys narrating identities in science. Journal of Research in Science Teaching 53:1 ► pp. 95 ff.
Walker-Gibbs, Bernadette
2016. Notions of Place, Space and Identity in Rural Teacher Education. In Self-studies in Rural Teacher Education [Self-Study of Teaching and Teacher Education Practices, 14], ► pp. 55 ff.
Huang, Ju & Shijing Xu
2015. A Narrative Inquiry into Chinese Teacher Induction in West China through Cross-Cultural Teacher Development. Frontiers of Education in China 10:3 ► pp. 470 ff.
Huang, Ju & Shijing Xu
2016. A Glimpse of Quality and Equity Issues in Education in West China. In Educational Development in Western China, ► pp. 137 ff.
Vito, Rosemary
2015. Leadership Support of Supervision in Social Work Practice. Canadian Social Work Review 32:1-2 ► pp. 151 ff.
2014. Playing hide-and-seek: searching for the use of self in reflective social work practice. Reflective Practice 15:2 ► pp. 131 ff.
Cavieres-Fernandez, Eduardo
2014. Teachers' experiences and teaching civic engagement beyond self-regarding individualism. Teaching and Teacher Education 42 ► pp. 1 ff.
Craig, Cheryl J. & Lily Orland-Barak
2014. International Teacher Education: Promising Pedagogies Concluding Chapter. In International Teacher Education: Promising Pedagogies (Part A), ► pp. 447 ff.
Craig, Cheryl J. & Lily Orland-Barak
2015. International Teacher Education: Promising Pedagogies Introduction. In International Teacher Education: Promising Pedagogies (Part B), ► pp. 1 ff.
Craig, Cheryl J., Yali Zou & Rita Poimbeauf
2014. Narrative inquiry as travel study method: affordances and constraints. Asia Pacific Education Review 15:1 ► pp. 127 ff.
2013. Life on School Landscapes: Teachers’ Experiences, Relationships and Emotions. In Emotion and School: Understanding how the Hidden Curriculum Influences Relationships, Leadership, Teaching, and Learning [Advances in Research on Teaching, 18], ► pp. 99 ff.
Craig, Cheryl J.
2014. From stories of staying to stories of leaving: a US beginning teacher’s experience. Journal of Curriculum Studies 46:1 ► pp. 81 ff.
Craig, Cheryl J.
2017. Sustaining Teachers: Attending to the Best-Loved Self in Teacher Education and Beyond. In Quality of Teacher Education and Learning [New Frontiers of Educational Research, ], ► pp. 193 ff.
Craig, Cheryl J.
2018. Metaphors of knowing, doing and being: Capturing experience in teaching and teacher education. Teaching and Teacher Education 69 ► pp. 300 ff.
Craig, Cheryl J.
2019. Sustaining Self and Others in the Teaching Profession: A Personal Perspective. In International Research, Policy and Practice in Teacher Education, ► pp. 79 ff.
Craig, Cheryl J.
2020. Generous Scholarship: A Counternarrative for the Region and the Academy. In Cross-Disciplinary, Cross-Institutional Collaboration in Teacher Education [Palgrave Studies on Leadership and Learning in Teacher Education, ], ► pp. 351 ff.
Craig, Cheryl J.
2023. Tracing the Roots of the Best-Loved Self. In Learning, Leading, and the Best-Loved Self in Teaching and Teacher Education [Palgrave Studies on Leadership and Learning in Teacher Education, ], ► pp. 9 ff.
Craig, Cheryl J.
2023. Challenges to lived curriculum making: 1990–2020. In International Encyclopedia of Education(Fourth Edition), ► pp. 339 ff.
Craig, Cheryl J.
2024. The Music of Narrative Inquiry: Characterizing, Representing, and Learning from Experiences of Experiences. In Methodological Musings: Thinking with Narrative in Music Education Research [Landscapes: the Arts, Aesthetics, and Education, 37], ► pp. 165 ff.
2013. Intellectual Disability and Space: Critical Narratives of Exclusion. Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities 51:1 ► pp. 74 ff.
Howe, Edward R. & Shijing Xu
2013. Transcultural teacher development within the dialectic of the global and local: Bridging gaps between East and West. Teaching and Teacher Education 36 ► pp. 33 ff.
Huber, Janice, Vera Caine, Marilyn Huber & Pam Steeves
2013. Narrative Inquiry as Pedagogy in Education. Review of Research in Education 37:1 ► pp. 212 ff.
Bamberg, Michael
2012. Narrative Discourse. In The Encyclopedia of Applied Linguistics,
Craig, Cheryl J., JeongAe You & Suhak Oh
2012. Why school-based narrative inquiry in physical education research? An international perspective. Asia Pacific Journal of Education 32:3 ► pp. 271 ff.
Craig, Cheryl J., JeongAe You & Suhak Oh
2014. Tensions in teacher community: competing commitments in the teaching of US middle school physical education. Journal of Curriculum Studies 46:5 ► pp. 697 ff.
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