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Narrative InquiryVol. 20:2 (2010) ► pp.349–370
Narrative inquiry for school-based research
Shijing Xu | University of Windsor, National Research Center for Foreign Language Education Beijing China
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.
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