Handbook of Autoethnography

Author: Tony E. Adams
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 131542780X
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 737

Book Description
In this definitive reference volume, almost fifty leading thinkers and practitioners of autoethnographic research—from four continents and a dozen disciplines—comprehensively cover its vision, opportunities and challenges. Chapters address the theory, history, and ethics of autoethnographic practice, representational and writing issues, the personal and relational concerns of the autoethnographer, and the link between researcher and social justice. A set of 13 exemplars show the use of these principles in action. Autoethnography is one of the most popularly practiced forms of qualitative research over the past 20 years, and this volume captures all its essential elements for graduate students and practicing researchers.

Autoethnography

Author: Tony E. Adams
Publisher: Understanding Qualitative Rese
ISBN: 0199972095
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 217

Book Description
Brimming with examples, this book demonstrates how qualitative researchers can use autoethnography as a method for qualitative research. Topics include a brief history of autoethnography; the purposes and practices of doing autoethnography; interpreting, analyzing, and representing personal experience; and evaluating autoethnographic work.

Essentials of Autoethnography

Author: Christopher N. Poulos
Publisher: Essentials of Qualitative Meth
ISBN: 9781433834547
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 100

Book Description
In this step-by-step guide to writing autoethnography, the author describes and illustrates the essential features and practices of this qualitative research method.

Collaborative Autoethnography

Author: Heewon Chang
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1315432129
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 201

Book Description
A practical guide providing researchers with a variety of data collection, analytic, and writing techniques to conduct collaborative autoethnography projects.

Narrating Social Work Through Autoethnography

Author: Stanley L Witkin
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231158815
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 382

Book Description
Autoethnography is an innovative approach to inquiry located in the interstices between science and literature. Blending researcher and subject roles, autoethnographers use analytical strategies to explore the social and cultural contexts of meaningful life experiences and their implications for the present. Social issues are described from the inside out, producing narratives that reflect the messy, experiential encounters of everyday life. This collection illustrates the value of autoethnography as an inquiry approach for social work practice. Covering such topics as international adoption, cross-dressing, divorce, cultural competence, life-threatening illness, and transformative change, contributors showcase the ambiguities, doubts, contradictions, insights, tensions, and epiphanies that accompany their experiences. This anthology provides a readable and unique example of an exciting new trend in qualitative research.

Evocative Autoethnography

Author: Arthur Bochner
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134815948
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 282

Book Description
This comprehensive text is the first to introduce evocative autoethnography as a methodology and a way of life in the human sciences. Using numerous examples from their work and others, world-renowned scholars Arthur Bochner and Carolyn Ellis, originators of the method, emphasize how to connect intellectually and emotionally to the lives of readers throughout the challenging process of representing lived experiences. Written as the story of a fictional workshop, based on many similar sessions led by the authors, it incorporates group discussions, common questions, and workshop handouts. The book: describes the history, development, and purposes of evocative storytelling; provides detailed instruction on becoming a story-writer and living a writing life; examines fundamental ethical issues, dilemmas, and responsibilities; illustrates ways ethnography intersects with autoethnography; calls attention to how truth and memory figure into the works and lives of evocative autoethnographers.

The Ethnographic I

Author: Carolyn Ellis
Publisher: Rowman Altamira
ISBN: 0759100519
Category : Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 448

Book Description
[The author] ... weaves both methodological advice and her own personal stories into an intriguing narrative about a fictional graduate course she instructs. In it, readers learn about her students and their projects and understand the wide array of topics and strategies that fall under the label autoethnography. Through [her] interactions with her students, readers are given useful strategies for conducting a study, including the need for introspection, the struggles of the budding ethnographic writer, the practical problems in explaining results of this method to outsiders, and the moral and ethical issues that are raised in this intimate form of research.

Autoethnography as Method

Author: Heewon Chang
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1315433354
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 216

Book Description
This methods book will guide the reader through the process of conducting and producing an autoethnographic study through the understanding of self, other, and culture. Readers will be encouraged to follow hands-on, though not prescriptive, steps in data collection, analysis, and interpretation with self-reflective prewriting exercises and self-narrative writing exercises to produce their own autoethnographic work. Chang offers a variety of techniques for gathering data on the self—from diaries to culture grams to interviews with others—and shows how to transform this information into a study that looks for the connection with others present in a diverse world. She shows how the autoethnographic process promotes self-reflection, understanding of multicultural others, qualitative inquiry, and narrative writing. Samples of published autoethnographies provide exemplars for the novice researcher to follow.

Questions of Culture in Autoethnography

Author: Phiona Stanley
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781138908642
Category : Cross-cultural studies
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
This book showcases, with examples from myriad contexts and standpoints, how cross-cultural autoethnographies might be done effectively, ethically, and reflectively.

Autoethnography

Author: Sherick A. Hughes
Publisher: SAGE Publications
ISBN: 1483347176
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 273

Book Description
Autoethnography: Process, Product, and Possibility for Critical Social Research by Sherick A. Hughes and Julie L. Pennington provides a short introduction to the methodological tools and concepts of autoethnography, combining theoretical approaches with practical “how to” information. Written for social science students, teachers, teacher educators, and educational researchers, the text shows readers how autoethnographers collect, analyze, and report data. With its grounding in critical social theory and inclusion of innovative methods, this practical resource will move the field of autoethnography forward.