Autoethnography

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Abstract

Autoethnography is an increasingly popular form of postpositivist narrative inquiry that has recently begun to appear in educational contexts. The multiple lineages of autoethnography include the insider accounts of early anthropologists, literary approaches to life history and autobiography, responses to the ontological/epistemological challenges of postmodern philosophies, feminist and postcolonial insistence on including narratives of the marginalized, performance and communication scholarship, and the interest in personal stories of contemporary therapeutic and trauma cultures. Approaches vary widely from fragmented, experimental, performative, and multimodal texts through to realist tales. Advocates claim that autoethnography enables us to live more reflective, more meaningful, and more just lives.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationOxford Research Encyclopedia of Education
Place of PublicationU.K.
PublisherOxford University Press
Pages1-21
Number of pages21
ISBN (Print)9780190264093
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2017

Keywords

  • autoethnography
  • writing
  • personal narratives
  • education

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