Writing Truth as Fiction: Administrators Think about Their Work through a Different Lens

Authors

Diane Ketelle, Mills CollegeFollow

Abstract

This article argues that school administrators can learn about themselves through fictionalizing their real world experience. Examples of this writing form are offered in the text to illustrate the form and possible function of this type of work. The author presents this alternate writing form as a reflective tool that can assist professionals in learning about themselves and as a result resituate themselves in the world of leadership.

Keywords

Autoethnography, Narrative Inquiry, Evocative Narrative, Alternative Narrative Research, and Fiction as Educational Research

Publication Date

9-1-2004

Creative Commons License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 4.0 International License.

DOI

10.46743/2160-3715/2004.1918

Recommended APA Citation

Ketelle, D. (2004). Writing Truth as Fiction: Administrators Think about Their Work through a Different Lens. The Qualitative Report, 9(3), 449-462. https://doi.org/10.46743/2160-3715/2004.1918