· 2016
Autoethnography as Method
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- 2016year
Short summary
This book presents autoethnography as a research method, guiding readers through self-reflection and narrative writing to connect personal experience with broader cultural understanding.
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Key points
- Autoethnography connects personal experience to cultural understanding.
- Offers practical steps for data collection, analysis, and interpretation.
- Includes self-reflective prewriting and narrative writing exercises.
- Utilizes techniques like diaries, culture grams, and interviews.
- Provides examples of published autoethnographies for guidance.
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Abstract
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.
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