Ghost Stories: Accounting for the Silences in Narrative Inquiry

• Autores: Natalie V.K. Szudy
• Localización: Quest, ISSN 0033-6297, Vol. 61, Nº. 3, 2009, págs. 306-321
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • During the early 20th Century, female athletes who did not fit into the model of feminine beauty and grace, represented through select models of sport, were often not considered in media reports and newspapers. Through an examination of the use of narrative inquiry in the exploration of women�s experiences in 20th Century Canadian sport, a lack of representation and gaps in information concerning women�s participation in sport has been identified. In order to discuss how these gaps can be accounted for, the examination of narrative inquiry as an epistemological methodology is required. Building on this analysis, this paper compares and contrasts the use of a causal chain model versus the use of the story as an explanation. Through this discussion, an assessment of how an application of this school of inquiry can be used to account for the experiences of female athletes will be discussed.

    In historic events the rule forbidding us to eat of the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge is specially applicable. Only unconscious action bears fruit, and he who plays a part in an historic event never understands its significance. If he tried to realize it his efforts are fruitless. (Tolstoy, 1869)