Core story creation: analysing narratives to construct stories for learning.BACKGROUND
 'Core story creation' is a way of managing raw data obtained from narrative interviews to construct stories for learning.


 To explain how core story creation can be used to construct stories from raw narratives obtained by interviewing parents about their neonatal experiences and then use these stories to educate learners.


 Core story creation involves reconfiguration of raw narratives.  Core story creation using emplotment is a strategy of narrative reconfiguration that produces stories which can be used to develop resources relating to person-centred education about the patient experience.



Core story creation
Educational research uses narrative enquiry to gain and interpret people's experiences. 
narrative enquiry
Narrative analysis is used to organise and make sense of acquired narrative. 
narrative analysis
Reconfiguration includes listening to and rereading transcribed narratives, identifying elements of 'emplotment' and reordering these to form a constructed story.  Core story creation using emplotment is a strategy of narrative reconfiguration that produces stories which can be used to develop resources relating to person-centred education about the patient experience.



emplotment
Thematic analysis is then performed on the story to draw out learning themes informed by the participants.



thematic analysis