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Narrative approaches to research are now common. Although narrative approaches are an alternative to the hegemonic empirically based tradition that Clandinin and Connelly (2000) called “a ‘grand narrative’ of social science inquiry” (p. xxv), narrative researchers no longer need to defend their approach as “legitimate” from attacks by critics who question its validity.
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Stovin, D. (2016). Narrative, Insight, and Effective Decision Making in Education. In: Newton, P., Burgess, D. (eds) The Best Available Evidence. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-438-1_4
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