This paper brings together a number of themes: the role of the researcher's own experience in reporting that of others; the capacity of narrative methods in the social sciences to report human experience; and the virtue of the self-consciously fictional story as a form which can bring and hold together the experiences of the researcher and of the 'subject': the centrepiece of the paper is a short story located in a Special Education setting.
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Peter Clough (1996) studied this question.