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Narrative inquiry in sport and exercise psychology: what can it mean, and why might we do it?

Brett Smith, +1 more
- 01 Jan 2009 - 
- Vol. 10, Iss: 1, pp 1-11
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In this article, a distillation of guiding assumptions and characteristics of narrative inquiry in sport and exercise psychology is presented. But, as a form of qualitative research that is burgeoning within the human sciences, little attention has been given to this approach.
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This article is published in Psychology of Sport and Exercise.The article was published on 2009-01-01. It has received 323 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Narrative inquiry & Narrative network.

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Narrative analysis and sport and exercise psychology: Understanding lives in diverse ways

TL;DR: In this article, a typology of different ways in which stories can be analysed is introduced, with two contrasting standpoints toward narrative analysis, story analyst and storyteller, and three specific methods that each standpoint might use to analyse the whats and hows of storytelling.
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Qualitative methods in sport: a concise overview for guiding social scientific sport research

TL;DR: A broad overview of qualitative methods in sport and the social sciences can be found in this article, where various qualitative traditions such as ethnography, grounded theory, narrative inquiry and critical inquiry are described.
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Narrative inquiry: ongoing conversations and questions for sport and exercise psychology research

TL;DR: The authors focused attention on five main issues within ongoing conversations among sport and exercise psychology researchers who promote and/or engage in narrative research, including, motivations for why researchers have turned to narrative, the concept of self-the self, interviewing, the issue of "truth" and representation.
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Centralizing culture in cultural sport psychology research: The potential of narrative inquiry and discursive psychology

TL;DR: In this article, the authors focus on two qualitative methodologies grounded in social constructionism and their potential for advancing understandings of culture within CSP research: narrative inquiry and discursive psychology.
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The Social Context as a Determinant of Teacher Motivational Strategies in Physical Education

TL;DR: Deci et al. as discussed by the authors provided an in-depth analysis of how the physical education teaching context influences teachers' motivational strategies towards students, finding that teachers perceived that an emphasis on student assessment and the time constraints associated with PE lessons often compelled them to use teaching strategies which conflicted with their beliefs about the most appropriate ways to motivate students.
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Handbook of Qualitative Research

TL;DR: The discipline and practice of qualitative research have been extensively studied in the literature as discussed by the authors, including the work of Denzin and Denzin, and their history in sociology and anthropology, as well as the role of women in qualitative research.
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Acts of meaning

TL;DR: Jerome Bruner argues that the cognitive revolution has led psychology away from the deeper objective of understanding mind as a creator of meanings, and only by breaking out of the limitations imposed by a computational model of mind can be grasped.
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Narrative knowing and the human sciences

TL;DR: JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive as discussed by the authors.
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Narrative Methods for the Human Sciences

TL;DR: The authors Constructing Narratives for Research Thematic Analysis Structural Analysis Dialogic Performance Analysis Visual Analysis Truths and Cautions Truths, Caution, and Caution: Looking Back, Looking Forward