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This chapter describes narrative inquiry methodology and modes of thinking and knowing. It delves into the author’s journey as a novice narrative inquirer and explores how her own transitional experience as an Arab immigrant high school student impacted her initial perceptions and expectations of participants’ views and experiences. While she greatly identified with the participants’ experiences in transition, she explains how her research opened her eyes to different life possibilities and circumstances. She describes how living the inquiry in the midst of her career, family life, and doctoral studies in tandem with her participantsʼ ongoing lives exposed her to new life-learning opportunities. The experience shifted her understanding of peoples’ lives and experiences and allowed her to better appreciate human differences and similarities alike.
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Elkord, N. (2019). Living the Inquiry. In: Cross-Cultural Schooling Experiences of Arab Newcomer Students. Intercultural Reciprocal Learning in Chinese and Western Education. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-14420-3_2
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