How can we feed back a value-added understanding to teachers we are engaged with in action research? Roy talked about using "narrative evaluation" as a method - a process of deep listening with caring and then telling the story that the person would like to have expressed - using their words as much as possible. Humanising the story by putting them and their place in it. The person can then reflect on their stories and others to come to new understandings.
Her research paradigm is about exploring experience and the meaning of experience. The researcher is situated in the research and deliberately honours that place - the research ultimately is a journey of self-understanding as this self through their interpretive lens comes to understand their world. They are on a journey of uncovering the meaning of the other's stories, drawing from their own lenses, other philosophers perspectives and others lived experience stories. Each iteration helps to go deeper into the lived experience. It is a process of enriching with meaning and potential rather than drawing out "bared" threads and coming up with assertions.
She encourages writers to take an active voice rather than using a passive voice. Beware of nouns which imprison meaning in single words. Open these up with speculation... eg. what does this person mean when they talk about "quality of relationship"....
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