We review some of the recent trends that have made the collection and exploration of narratives especially prominent among the social sciences. While we acknowledge the significance of narratives in many aspects of social life, we sound a note of caution concerning the popularity of ‘narratives’, and ‘testimony’, not least among ‘qualitative’ researchers. We suggest that too many authors are complicit in the general culture of ‘the interview society’, and are too ready to celebrate narratives and biographical accounts, rather than subjecting them to systematic analysis. In the same way, we suggest that the contemporary fashion for ‘autoethnography’ too often leads to unreflective uses of personal accounts.
2020. The Toledo Teacher Trainees corpus (TTT): Bridging the gap between students’ narratives and corpus linguistics. Research in Corpus Linguistics 8 ► pp. 147 ff.
Jackson, Ruth & Max Kelly
2019. Women Researching in Africa: The Impact of Gender. In Women Researching in Africa, ► pp. 1 ff.
Lovett, Nadia & Trevor Lovett
2016. Wellbeing in Education: Staff Matter. International Journal of Social Science and Humanity 6:2 ► pp. 107 ff.
2011. TESOL, Teacher Identity, and the Need for “Small Story” Research. TESOL Quarterly 45:3 ► pp. 535 ff.
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