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.