Julie L. Pennington & Sherick A. Hughes 
Autoethnography [EPUB ebook] 
Process, Product, and Possibility for Critical Social Research

2020 Society of Professors of Education Outstanding Book Award winner

Autoethnography: Process, Product, and Possibility for Critical Social Research 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.

Tabella dei contenuti

Preface

Acknowledgments

About the Authors

PART I • HISTORIES AND APPLICATIONS OF AUTOETHNOGRAPHY AS CRITICAL SOCIAL RESEARCH

Chapter 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 Consider

Chapter 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 Consider

PART II • DOING AUTOETHNOGRAPHY: FROM BRAINSTORMING TO GUIDING PROCESS

Chapter 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 Consider

Chapter 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 Consider

Chapter 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 Consider

PART III • THE FUTURE OF AUTOETHNOGRAPHY: A PRISM OF POSSIBILITY

Chapter 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 Consider

Chapter 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 Autoethnography

Appendixes

A. Autoethnography Data Representation: An Example

B. Sample Undergraduate Mini-Autoethnography Student Work

C. Sample Mini-Autoethnography Midterm Assignment— Undergraduate Level

D. Sample Syllabus for an Autoethnography Course—Graduate Level

Glossary

References

Index

Circa l’autore

Sherick Hughes, Ph D, is a Full Professor in the School of Education at the University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill. In addition to numerous publications in professional journals, he is the co-author of Autoethnography: Process, Product and Possibility for Critical Social Research (2020 Book Award, national Society of Professors of Education),  Black Hands in the Biscuits Not in the Classrooms: Unveiling hope in a struggle for Brown’s promise (2007 AESA Critics’ Choice Book Award, and co-author of The Evolving Significance of Race: Living, Learning, and Teaching  (2014 AESA Critics’ Choice Book Award). For more than 20 years, he has been investigating and addressing equity issues at the intersection of theory, policy, and practice. He has applied a variety of research methods that inform international dialogues on how inequitable social structures are developed, reproduced, and resisted; including the processes of learning and unlearning intergroup biases. He has taught courses in research methodology, equity, urban education, and intercultural education to both undergraduate and graduate students. He is recognized as one of the pre-eminent scholars of autoethnography methods, critical race studies and black education, and social context of schooling in urban and rural settings. Currently, he is a consultant and lecturer on trends in educational research, autoethnography, structural racism, and anti-racist education. His work was recognized by the American Educational Research Association (i.e., 2016 Distinguished Scholar Award; 2013 Division-G Early Career Award), and the Harvard Family Involvement Network of Educators. His work is used widely (for example, to inform an educational equity argument before the Supreme Court of North Carolina; and to inform popular culture Netflix series, “The Patriot Act” hosted by Hasan Minaj). He holds a doctorate in Education from UNC-Chapel Hill, a master’s degree in Communication Studies from Wake Forest University, a master’s degree in Public Administration from UNC at Chapel Hill, and a bachelor’s degree in Communication Studies from UNC at Wilmington. To learn more about Autoethnography: Process, Product, and Possibility for Critical Social Research, click here: https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/autoethnography/book241765 or here: https://methods.sagepub.com/book/autoethnography To learn more about Sherick Hughes, his related SAGE book video, click here: https://methods.sagepub.com/video/sherick-hughes-discusses-autoethnography