Opening the Black Box: A primer for the Listening Guide method of narrative inquiry.

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 152-170
Author(s):  
Deborah L. Tolman ◽  
James Christopher Head
Keyword(s):  
Narrative Inquiry ◽  
Black Box ◽  
Listening Guide ◽  
The Listening Guide

Bringing together the Listening Guide and Moral Self-Definition for narrative analysis of older people’s understanding of health-related decision-making

2018 ◽  
Vol 19 (5) ◽  
pp. 594-610
Author(s):  
Kate Robins-Browne ◽  
Marilys Guillemin ◽  
Kelsey Hegarty ◽  
Victoria Jane Palmer
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Narrative Analysis ◽  
Temporal Relationship ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Medical Decision ◽  
Listening Guide ◽  
Moral Self ◽  
Health Related ◽  
The Listening Guide ◽  
The Relationship

Identity and decision-making are interrelated concepts, but the relationship between them is complex particularly when an unwell person’s ability to make decisions is compromised. In this article we discuss how moral self-definition (Nelson, 2001;Walker, 1987) can be used within a Listening Guide (LG) analysis to extend analysis of the temporal relationship between identity and decisions. In this project, the LG was used to analyze interviews exploring older people’s understanding of medical decision-making when the unwell person’s capacity is diminished. The second step of the LG drew attention to the participants’ expression of decision-making voices and health-related identities, but the iterative and temporal relationship between identity and decisions was less well illuminated. Therefore, we applied the theoretical framework of moral self-definition within the third listening. The focus of this article is on how moral self-definition can be integrated as a theoretical framework within the contrapuntal listening to extend the LG analysis.

The listening guide: voice-centred-relational analysis of private subjectivities

2020 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Martina Hutton ◽  
Charlotte Lystor
Keyword(s):  
Analytical Approach ◽  
Sense Of Self ◽  
Listening Guide ◽  
Family Research ◽  
Relational Dynamics ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Private Location ◽  
Private And Public ◽  
Relations Of Power ◽  
The Listening Guide

Purpose This paper focuses on the analytical importance of voice and the value of listening and representing voices in private contexts. It highlights the under-theorised position of relationality in family research. The paper introduces the listening guide as a unique analytical approach to sharpen researchers’ understanding of private experiences and articulations. Design/methodology/approach This is a conceptual and technical paper. It problematises voice, authority and analytical representation in the private location of family and examines how relational dynamics interact with the subtleties of voice in research. It also provides a practical illustration of the listening guide detailing how researchers can use this analytical approach. Findings The paper illustrates how the listening guide works as an analytical method, structured around four stages and applied to interview transcript excerpts. Practical implications The listening guide bridges private and public knowledge-making, by identifying competing voices and recognises relations of power in family research. It provides qualitative market researchers with an analytical tool to hear changes and continuities in participants’ sense of self over time. Social implications The paper highlights how peripheral voices and silence can be analytically surfaced in private domains. A variety of studies and data can be explored with this approach, however, research questions involving vulnerable or marginal experiences are particularly suitable. Originality/value The paper presents the listening guide as a novel analytic method for researching family life – one, which recovers the importance of voice and serves as a means to address the lack of debate on voice and authority in qualitative market research. It also highlights the under-theorised position of relationality in tracing the multiple subjectivities of research participants. It interrupts conventional qualitative analysis methods, directing attention away from conventional coding and towards listening as an alternative route to knowledge.

On the Listening Guide: A Voice-Centered Relational Method

2012 ◽  
pp. 253-272 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carol Gilligan ◽  
Renée Spencer ◽  
M. Weinberg ◽  
Tatiana Bertsch
Keyword(s):  
Listening Guide ◽  
The Listening Guide
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