Engaging in educational narrative inquiry: making visible alternative knowledge

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Jacqueline O’ Toole http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0362-8744

Notes on contributors

Dr Grace O' Grady is lecturer in Education and Director of the Master of Education and Postgraduate Diploma in School Guidance Counselling. She teaches on all the programmes in the Education Department in the curricular areas of Human Development, Developmental Psychology, Child Protection and Social, Personal and Health Education and Counselling Theory. She is a founding director of the Centre for Transformative Narrative Inquiry (Dept. of Adult and Community Education and Education Dept.): https://www.maynoothuniversity.ie/education/centre-transformative-narrative-inquiry and the Irish International Narrative Inquiry Conference network https://www.maynoothuniversity.ie/education/events/irish-narrative-inquiry-conference-narrating-neo-liberalism-irish-context. She teaches and supervises narrative research on the Masters and Doctoral Programmes in the Department. Her current research is a Creative Narrative Inquiry into the shifting identity of teachers as they begin to situate themselves differently as guidance counsellors in the school landscape: https://www.maynoothuniversity.ie/education/more-about-our-research.

D. Jean Clandinin is Professor Emeriti and the past and founding Director of the Centre forResearch for Teacher Education and Development at the University of Alberta. She is aformer teacher, counselor, and psychologist.

Jacqueline O’ Toole is a Lecturer in Social Research in the Institute of Technology Sligo. Hermain interests are qualitative methodology; feminist theory; critical weight studies; andgender and social care.