Tuesday (16/11) to Friday (19/11) UGM Center for Life-Span Development (CLSD) in collaboration with the UGM Psychology Doctoral Study Program held an Intensive Course in Narrative Research Methods. This event is the second online narrative training event from CLSD after last year also held it with the same theme.
The opening ceremony starts on Tuesday (16/11) at 10.00 and ends on Friday (19/11) at 16.00. This event was attended by 55 participants consisting of students and the general public.
In this training, participants are invited to understand the history of development, theory, to narrative research methods. On the last day, participants were also given the opportunity to present the outline of the narrative research. With this, it is hoped that participants will gain the skills to carry out narrative research in a variety of contexts and for various purposes.
The first day of the training was opened by the presentation of material on the History of the Development of Narrative Research by Edilburga Wulan Saptandari, M.Psi., Ph.D., Psychologist. This lecturer at the Faculty of Psychology UGM invites participants to understand the emergence of narrative research in the world of qualitative research.
In the second session, Edilburga continued by explaining the theory and design of narrative research. In this session, the trainees are invited to understand how narrative research is structured theoretically and conceptually. In the last hour, the training participants were also invited to practice practicing the steps in preparing a narrative research design.
Furthermore, on the second day of the Narrative training, the materials for Narrative data collection methods were presented by Made Diah Lestari, Ph.D (Cand). The lecturer of Psychology Study Program, Udayana Faculty of Medicine, who is currently completing his doctoral study at Massey University, explained to the participants how the narrative research data was obtained and collected.
In the second session, Made explained about the practice of collecting narrative data from the research he had carried out. From his experiences in the field, Made invites participants to understand what obstacles and challenges will be faced when collecting data in the field. Made also provides several alternative solutions that can be taken if participants face similar problems so that narrative research can continue.
The third day of the training was filled with material on various narrative approaches presented by Prof. Dr. Heddy Shri Ahimsa-Putra M.A., M.Phil. In his presentation Heddy explained the various kinds of narrative traditions that have been embedded in regional culture in Indonesia. This rich variety of narratives continues to grow from traditional media such as wayang to more modern media such as films.
In the second session Heddy guided the trainees to understand and practice narrative analysis. In this session participants are given the opportunity to understand how to use narrative analysis from various approaches to explore data and answer research questions.
On the fourth day the training event was closed by the presentation of research results presented by Elga Andriana, S.Psi., M.Ed., Ph.D. In this session, Elga explains how to present the results of narrative analysis in a good research report, which is interesting and easy for readers to understand.
In the second session on the fourth day, Elga gave the opportunity to several participants to present the narrative research designs they had compiled. This opportunity was taken by five participants, namely three from UGM Psychology Doctoral students and two from general participants.