Art-based narrative interviewing as a dual methodological process: A participatory research method and an approach to coaching in secondary education

Abstract

Objectives:The purpose of this article is to discuss art-based narrative interviewing as a dual methodological process with the focus on coaching.Design:A qualitative study was designed in order to explore how secondary students view their own learning as a journey.Method:Art-based narrative interviewing was employed as an approach to coaching that aimed to develop positive learning dispositions and enhance learners’ identities. Dialogic/performance analysis and cross case analysis were conducted to all the three cases.Results:Three distinctive learning stories were told, together with students’ narratives, drawings, and the interactive dialogues between the students and the author as the interviewer/coach. The analysis highlighted the learners’ growth, the use of metaphors and images, students’ experience of transformative learning and the landscape of time and action.Conclusions:The article covers the features of art-based narrative interviewing as a method of data collection, analysis and presentation, and its potential to be utilised as an effective coaching approach alternative to traditional pedagogical intervention.