(790) THICK NARRATIVES: MINING IMPLICIT, OBLIQUE, AND DEEPER UNDERSTANDINGS IN VIDEOTAPED RESEARCH DATA

摘要

In this article, we report upon the adoption of Jerome Bruner's narrative approach, which served as ananalytic framework for analyzing, representing, and disseminating over sixty hours of documentaryresearch footage. We invited twenty international scholars in the field of the social sciences andhumanities to document their philosophies and autobiographies on videotape. We asked: What are theoverarching themes or theories that unite the scholars' methodological and conceptual frameworks?How have the scholars' unique lived experiences contributed to their current interpretivist or criticalviewpoints? What autobiographical stories rise to the forefront? Can these stories be linked orconnected to represent an unfolding narrative through both space and time? Through the course ofnarrative analysis, significant themes such as poverty, social inequality, classism, oppression, andcolonization emerged from the videotaped dialogues. The scholars' unique narratives coalesced intoan interdisciplinary narrative community within the wider field of qualitative research.