Narrative Inquiry in Music Education: Troubling Certainty

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This text provides a forum for the presentation and discussion of narrative inquiry approaches to research in music education, and contextualizes this work within the larger conversations of music education research and practice. In an innovative dialogic approach the text is divided into 3 parts, each presenting a different perspective on the uses and purposes of narrative in and for music education. Section I explores the origins of narrative research across a range of fields of inquiry and presents a conception of narrative inquiry as "resonant work". Section II provides 7 examples of narrative inquiry research, each of which is accompanied by a reflective commentary. The commentaries provide an interpretive perspective of the narrative accounts, suggest further questions that arise from the inquiry, and provide insight into the potential uses of the narrative account for the theory and practice of music education. Section III brings together the perspectives of two eminent theorists and practitioners. Front Matter....Pages I-VII Front Matter....Pages 1-1 Introduction....Pages 1-4 Front Matter....Pages 5-5 Narrative Inquiry: From Story to Method....Pages 7-17 Narrative Inquiry in Music Education: Toward ResonantWork....Pages 19-29 Front Matter....Pages 31-31 Prelude: Framing and Re-framing the Narrative Possibilities for Music Education....Pages 33-34 Storying the Musical Lifeworld: Illumination Through Narrative Case Study....Pages 35-56 Challenges in Storying a Musical Lifeworld – A Commentary....Pages 57-62 The Importance of Being Henry....Pages 63-80 The Interview as Narrative – A Commentary....Pages 81-85 Filtered Through the Lenses of Self: Experiences of Two Preservice Music Teachers....Pages 87-106 Layering Analytic Lenses: Considerations for Assessing the Narrative Text in Music Education – A Commentary....Pages 107-112 Learning from the Learners: A Cooperating Teacher’s Story....Pages 113-130 Nora’s Story and the Mirror of Music Teacher Excellence – A Commentary....Pages 131-134 “Everybody Should Be Heard; Everybody Has Got a Story to Tell, or a Song to Sing”....Pages 135-151 Giving Voice to the Voiceless: Empowerment Through Music – A Commentary....Pages 153-156 “G”....Pages 157-174 Narrative Inquiry as Reflection on Pedagogy - A Commentary....Pages 175-178 Stories from the Front....Pages 179-194 Narrative Inquiry and Indelible Impressions – A Commentary....Pages 195-197 Front Matter....Pages 199-199 Troubling Certainty: Narrative Possibilities for Music Education....Pages 201-209 Charting Narrative Territory....Pages 211-222 Front Matter....Pages 199-199 Postlude....Pages 223-224 Back Matter....Pages 225-246