Relating Narrative, Inquiry, and Inscriptions: Supporting Consequential Play

Supporting Rereadability through Narrative Play

In this paper, we investigate the use of narrative play as a means of encouraging rereading in interactive stories. To explore this, we created a storytelling game in which the reader/player takes on the role of a film director whose objective is to shoot a film in the face of a series of complications. We discuss the iterative design and playtesting of the prototype of our game, and argue that...

The Narrative Turn and the How of Narrative Inquiry

Relating Narrative Events in Translation

About two decades ago, Ruth Berman and I set out to explore the development of “the ability to relate events in narrative” (Berman 1988; Berman & Slobin 1987, 1994). We devoted a great deal of research attention to a seemingly simple task: oral narratives elicited by a picture storybook created for children, Frog, where are you? (Mayer 1969), originally discovered as a research tool by Michael ...

’ Introduction Theory and Craft in Narrative Inquiry

Yet even those who acknowledge the importance of the broader context wrestle with questions about how to study the complex interactions among changing cultural, historical, and developmental factors. . . . Researchers who are particularly interested in cultural factors in development face the challenge of conceptualizing culture in a way that can be studied empirically. . . . A narrative approa...

Narrative Inquiry: An Interview With Michael Bamberg

Europe's Journal of Psychology, 2016, Vol. 12(1), 14–28, doi:10.5964/ejop.v12i1.1128 Published (VoR): 2016-02-29. *Corresponding author at: Clark University, Department of Psychology, Worcester, MA 01610-1477, USA. E-mail: [email protected] This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0), which...