Conversation as inquiry: A conversation with instructional designers

• Author(s) / Creator(s)

  • Kenny, Richard F.
  • Schwier, Richard A.
  • Campbell, Katherine

• Instructional designers regularly engage in a process of professional and personal transformation that has the potential to transform the culture of institutions through faculty-client relationships. Instructional designers promote new ideas and understandings in social contexts that include other designers and clients, among others. This research program attempts to understand this process, using narrative inquiry and instructional designers’ stories of practice to explore two interconnected theoretical frames. One frame is methodological and offers a case for narrative inquiry as an alternative approach to research in educational technology. The second frame is practice-based, and uses narrative inquiry to explore the themes of reflexivity, voice, strong subjectivity and power/authority through the stories of three instructional designers.

• Date created

  2006-01-01

• Subjects / Keywords

  • Agency
  • Conversation
  • Narrative inquiry
  • Critical theory
  • Educational technology
  • Instructional designers
  • Instructional design
  • Moral authority

• Type of Item

  Article (Published)

• DOI

  https://doi.org/10.7939/R33151

• License

  © 2006 Campbell,K. This is an Open Access document distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited.