PrologueAcknowledgmentsAbout the AuthorChapter 1: Contempt: A Barrier to Realizing Leadership Preamble The Narrative AfterwordChapter 2: The Reflexive Narrative Bricolage Reflexive Narrative The Research Spectrum Bricolage Reflective Theory Critical Social Science Hermeneutics Narrative Theory Feminist Slant Women's Ways of Knowing Non-Western Influence Literary Theory Summary ActivityChapter 3: The Six Dialogical Movements The Six Dialogical Movements Dialogue The Hermeneutic Spiral Summary ActivityChapter 4: Writing Self: The First Dialogical Movement Recall Mimesis and Anti-Mimesis Writing Journal Descriptions Summary ActivityChapter 5: Structured Reflection: The Second Dialogical Movement Structured Reflection Mike Applying the MSR Cues Summary ActivityChapter 6: Drawing Tentative Insights Conceptual Maps The Framing Perspectives Developmental Framing Summary ActivityChapter 7: Cocreating Insights Dialogue With Extant Knowledge: The Third Dialogical Movement Guidance: The Fourth Dialogical Movement The Community of Inquiry No Formal Guidance Summary ActivityChapter 8: Weaving the Reflexive Narrative: The Fifth Dialogical Movement Narrative Time Span Being Creative Magical Realism Writing From the Body Showing Versus Telling Using Tense and Dialogue Giving Voice to Others Using Metaphor Images and Art Narration Writing for Performance Summary ActivityChapter 9: Through a Glass Darkly Preamble Through a Glass Darkly Narrative ActivityChapter 10: Coherence and Ethics Coherence Eyes of Knowing Criteria The Validity Question Rhizomatic Validity Ethics SummaryChapter 11: Audiencing: The Sixth Dialogical Movement Performance Summary ActivityChapter 12: Structuring the Reflexive Thesis Chapter 1 Background Chapter 2 Narrative Construction Chapter 3 The Reflexive Narrative Chapter 4 Deepening the Insights Chapter 5 Reflection on the Journey MSc Leadership in Health Care PhD Program PhD StudiesChapter 13: Concluding WordsAppendix A: Illustration of Adenike Akinbode's Reflexive Narrative WritingAppendix B: Extract From Margaret Graham's Reflexive Narrative ThesisAppendix C: Reflexive Narrative PublicationsReferencesIndex.
Reflexive Narrative : Self-Inquiry Toward Self-Realization and Its Performance