Autoethnography

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Describing how autoethnographers go about collecting, analyzing and reporting data, this book provides an historical and theoretical background, followed by methods chapters that guide students through the process.

PrefaceAcknowledgmentsAbout the AuthorsPART I ¿ HISTORIES AND APPLICATIONS OF AUTOETHNOGRAPHY AS CRITICAL SOCIAL RESEARCHChapter 1. Autoethnography: Introduction and Overview Focus Your Reading Histories of Autoethnography Defined Functions of Autoethnography Applied as Critical Social Research Concluding Thoughts Group Activity Individual Activity Sites for Students to ConsiderChapter 2. Mining and Priming Critical Social Theory for Autoethnography Focus Your Reading What Is Theory? What Is Social Theory? What Is Critical Social Theory? Emergent Critical Social Theorizing in Autoethnography Guidelines for Infusing Theory into Autoethnography Concluding Thoughts Individual Activity Individual and Two-Person Group Activity Sites for Students to ConsiderPART II ¿ DOING AUTOETHNOGRAPHY: FROM BRAINSTORMING TO GUIDING PROCESSChapter 3. First Guiding Process: Problematizing What You Know for New-Self Insight Focus Your Reading Theoretical Foundation Designing Autoethnography: Problematizing Data Collection and Analysis Strategies Deciding to Do Autoethnography: Problematizing a Linear Approach to Self-Exploration Directing Autoethnography: Problematizing Uniformed Applications Problematizing Ethics and Institutional Review Board Approval Concluding Thoughts Individual Activity Individual and Group Activity Sites for Students to ConsiderChapter 4. Second Guiding Process: Legitimizing Autoethnography With Three Approaches Focus Your Reading Theoretical Foundations of Legitimizing Reflexivity Three Approaches to Legitimizing Autoethnography Concluding Thoughts Group Activity Individual Activity Sites for Students to ConsiderChapter 5. Third Guiding Process: Synthesizing New-Self Insights With MICA Focus Your Reading What Is Qualitative Meta-Synthesis? What Is Meta-Autoethnography? Introducing MICA Sample Application of the MICA Method Synthesis as Translation: A Reciprocal Analogy Concluding Thoughts Group Activity Individual Activity Sites for Students to ConsiderPART III ¿ THE FUTURE OF AUTOETHNOGRAPHY: A PRISM OF POSSIBILITYChapter 6. The Possibility of Autoethnography as Critically Reflexive Action Research Focus Your Reading The Origins and Elements of CRAR Selection Process for Autoethnography Literature to Consider as CRAR Finding Autoethnographies Demonstrating CRAR Applying the CRAR Checklist/Rubric to Laubscher and Powell Applying the CRAR Checklist/Rubric to Hughes Concluding Thoughts: Toward Communicative Competence and Communicative Praxis Concluding Thoughts Group Activity Individual Activity Sites for Students to ConsiderChapter 7. Anticipating the Future of Autoethnography as Critical Social Research Focus Your Reading Growth and Creativity, Yet Sustained Skepticism and Criticism Taking Healthy Risks: Growth in Autoethnographic Dissertations Addressing Gaps in Autoethnography for the Future of the Genre Publishing Autoethnography: Journals and Academic Publishers Toward an Evolving Online Reading List for AutoethnographyAppendixesA. Autoethnography Data Representation: An ExampleB. Sample Undergraduate Mini-Autoethnography Student WorkC. Sample Mini-Autoethnography Midterm Assignment- Undergraduate LevelD. Sample Syllabus for an Autoethnography Course-Graduate LevelGlossaryReferencesIndex