摘要：Abstract This article intends to set a stage for dialog about our experience as researchers over the past ten years, how it relates to narrative research, and how we are affected by pursuing a career from the perspective of narrative thought. This approach implies synthesizing and creating knowledge through interaction and exchange with research participants by discussing, questioning and debating, not only with those taking part in studies directly but also with other research groups that conduct work on the narrative. Other qualitative approaches, such as Case Studies, Ethnography, and Action-Research, which boast greater consolidation in the field of qualitative research, include narrative in their research report writing, but as merely a secondary contribution. As researchers, we remove ourselves from understating narrative as something complementary; instead, we speak of narrative research as a method and process to deal with research, subjects, and the stories they tell (Dotta and Lopes, 2013). The use of narrative in research, in terms of “Life stories”, began during the first half of the twentieth century, when anthropologists and sociologists promoted the use of life stories in their work, as cited by , Bertaux (1981), and . Narrative allows us to truly recapture the research subject, time shared together, i.e., reflection as a commitment to the individual, the way we interacted, and the ethical care taken during the process.
