Narrative as elicitation method and theoretical production in qualitative research

Abstract

In this article we share the place that we gave to the tales and narrative as method and forms of knowledge in a doctoral research. For this a genealogy between narrative methodology and Arts Based Research (IBA) is developed. This crossing allows to understand the narrative turn in the social sciences and their contributions to qualitative research, especially the contributions of literary and art research methods in the educational experience. After this tour, as an example, we share three forms of how the account was used during the collection of evidence for this doctoral study. First, the story as a trigger strategy for interviews. Then, as visual method and trigger for focus group and, finally, as a theoretical construction of analysis, through the construction of biographical narratives. These three forms, which have elements of Arts Based Research, were used as strategies to understand the teacher knowledge of a group of art teachers in Chile.