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Autoethnography

“Ethnography is the art and science of describing a group or culture. The description may be of a small tribal group in an exotic land or a classroom in middle-class suburbia”.

 

— David M. Fetterman

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Unit Aims & Description

The purpose of this unit is to:

  1. Learn how ethnography, reflexivity, autobiography, storytelling, and the experiential can be used for qualitative research and deepen your critical understanding of them.

  2. Identify and critically evaluate autoethnography as an interdisciplinary mode of inquiry for exploring people, places, cultures, and selves.

  3. Acquire a critical understanding of the differences between performative, evocative, and analytical approaches to studying life experiences.

  4. Organise small-scale autoethnographic studies.

 
Learning Outcomes

You will:

  • Explore what is autoethnography

  • Examine the connections/interconnections between, for example, ethnography and autobiography.

  • Analysis and evaluation

  • Discuss the development and connections/interconnections with other autoethnographic approaches.

  • Possess a clear understanding of autoethnography and its applications

  • Embrace autoethnographic writing in qualitative research

  • Gain a fundamental understanding of the perspectives that are opposed to autoethnography as well as why it is beneficial to understand them.

  • Explore various writing styles and find out which one is most appropriate for your research.

  • Writing autoethnography and analysing and evaluating your own work

  • Competencies in presentation

 
Teaching Mode 

Discussion

Presentations

Reading/Writing 

Annotated bibliography

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Review 

20-minute presentation

800 words paper

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Examples  

Note: Classroom etiquette

Students

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