Narratives in Educational Research

Eeva Kaisa Hyry-Beihammer, PhD, is a professor of school pedagogics at the University College of Teacher Education Upper Austria, Austria. She worked as a postdoc researcher at the University of Oulu, Finland (2008–2010), as a visiting scholar and senior postdoc researcher at the University of Salzburg, Austria (2010–2014) and as a senior scientist at the University of Klagenfurt, Austria (2014–2015). Her research projects focus on (pre-service) teachers' professional development.Outi Ylitapio-Mäntylä, PhD, is an adjunct professor and university lecturer at the University of Oulu, Finland. She worked as a post-doctoral researcher (2010–2012) and university lecturer (2012–2017) at the University of Lapland. Since 2017 she has worked as a university lecturer at the University of Oulu and since 2019, she has worked as one of the research unit leaders at the Faculty of Education and Psychology. She has been a leader in several teaching and developmental projects funded by the Ministry of Culture and Education in Finland.Minna Uitto, PhD, is a professor of subject teacher education at the University of Oulu, Finland. She worked as a post-doctoral researcher (2011–2021) and university researcher (2021) at the University of Oulu. She leads two research projects about changing relations in teachers’ work funded by the Research Council of Finland (RELA, 2020–2024) and Eudaimonia Institute (University of Oulu) (NAVI, 2022–2025).

• Chapter 1. Introduction.- Part I. Researcher Positionings and Positioning Analysis.- Chapter 2. Examining Cross-Cultural Spaces and Researcher Positions in Narrative Research.- Chapter 3. Accounts of Ruptures and Narrative Positioning in Qualitative Follow-Up Research.- Part II. Peer Interviews and Analysing Peer Narration.- Chapter 4. Peer Interviews as a Narrative Research Method.- Chapter 5. Analysing Narration in a Peer Group.- Part III. Visual and Embodied Ways of Narrating.- Chapter 6. Exploring the Use of Pre-Service Teachers’ Visual Narratives to Study Emotions.- Chapter 7. Studying the Embodied Nature of Children’s Narration.- Part IV. Creative Writing and Analysis.- Chapter 8. Creative Writings, Creative Analysis: Exploring Narrative Ways to Analyse Teachers’ Writings.- Chapter 9. Narrating Teachers’ Professional Development: Arts-Based Creative Expression in Educational Research.- Part V. Rhetoric and Comprehensive Perspectives on Narratives.- Chapter 10. Analyzing Burkean Rhetoric in Pre-Service Teachers’ Identity Narratives.- Chapter 11. Making Sense of Narrativity.- Part VI. Concluding Thoughts.- Chapter 12. Narratives in Educational Research and Practice: A Thoughtful Embrace and Critical Nurturing.