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The reflexive turn in qualitative research has transformed the process of doing life history research. No longer are research subjects examined through the lens of the all-knowing but supposedly invisible researcher. As Ardra Cole and Gary Knowles point out in this fresh introduction to conducting life history research, the process is now one of mutuality, empathy, sensitivity and caring. The authors carry the novice researcher through the steps of conducting life history research—from conceptualizing the project to the various means of presenting results—with an eye toward understanding the complex relationship between participant and researcher and how that shapes the project. In addition to examples from their own research, Cole and Knowles bring in the work of a dozen novice researchers who explain the challenges they faced in developing their own life history projects in a wide variety of settings. Well written, interesting, and pedagogically sound, Lives in Context is the ideal text for teaching life history research to students and an important reference for the bookshelf of all qualitative researchers.
Andra L. Coles and J. Gary Knowles are both educational researchers at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education.
Chapter 1 PrefaceChapter 2 Beginnings: Reseraching the Professor: ThomasPart 3 Exploring MethodChapter 4 What is Life History ResearchChapter 5 Principles Guiding Life History ResearchingChapter 6 Beginning a Life History Research ProjectChapter 7 "Doing" Life History ResearchChapter 8 Preparing to Make Sense of Gathered Life History InformationChapter 9 Making Sense of and Representing Lives-in-ContextPart 10 Experiencing MethodChapter 11 Lessons from Nurses' LivesChapter 12 Responsibilities to Community: Relationality and Mutality with Home-educating FamiliesChapter 13 Research as RelationshipChapter 14 Fidelity and Ethical IdealsChapter 15 Telling "Inside" Stories: The Paradox of Researcher PrivilegeChapter 16 "Going Deep": Intersecting of Self as Researcher and ResearchedChapter 17 A Life History as Artistic InterpretationChapter 18 Reflections on "Our Stories": Women in Cardiac RehabilitationChapter 19 Researching First Nations' Educators through Presence, Collaboration, and AdvocacyChapter 20 Compelled to Honor Privacy: Reflections from Researching in a Nursing HomeChapter 21 Insights and Inspiration from an Artist's Work: Envisioning and Portraying Lives in ContextChapter 22 Re-reading "Anne": Using Images in an Artful InquiryChapter 23 Moments in TimeChapter 24 Endings: Writing the Professor, ThomasChapter 25 ReferencesChapter 26 IndexChapter 27 About the Authors
This book offers a sincere and 'in-depth' concern for the life story and the person ostensibly behind it. It's very well-written with intriguing and compelling interludes from other researchers' work. I'm sure it will be picked up, used, and cited by those interested in life history research.