Autoethnography

Part I. Histories & Applications of Autoethnography as a Product Chapter 1. Autoethnography: Introduction and Overview What are the histories and applications of autoethnography? Definitions, Iterations and Illustrative Examples Autoethnography's link to the traditional 5 approaches to qualitative research Does a Paradigm Problem Persist? The analytic vs. evocative autoethnography debate and other critiques of Autoethnography Crucial Elements of Autoethnography Summary, Group Activity, Individual Activity and Student Study Site Chapter 2. Mining and Priming Critical Social Theory for Autoethnography What is Theory? What is a Social Theory? What is Critical Social Theory? What exemplars of Critical Social Theory emerge from published contemporary autoethnography works of critical social research? How do autoethnography scholars link their research to critical social theory and what pitfalls and promises emerge from this connection? Summary, Group Activity, Individual Activity and Student Study Site Part II. Doing Autoethnography: From Brainstorming to Guiding Process Chapter 3. First Guiding Process: Problematizing What You Know for New-Self Insight What is problematizing and how can it guide autoethnography? Designing Autoethnography: Problematizing data collection and analysis strategies Deciding to Do Autoethnography: Problematizing a linear approach to exploring yourself within the cultural context Directing Autoethnography: Problematizing uniformed applications Summary, Group Activity, Individual Activity and Student Study Site Chapter 4. Second Guiding Process: Legitimizing Your New-Self Insight What is legitimizing and how can it guide autoethnography? Theoretical Foundation of Legitimizing Key Terms: Rigor and Reflexivity Four Approaches to Legitimizing Autoethography Evaluating Its Legitimacy with an Autoethnography Evaluative Checklist Summary, Group Activity, Individual Activity and Student Study Site Chapter 5. Third Guiding Process: Synthesizing New-Self Insights with MICA What is synthesizing and how can it guide autoethnography? Meta-Autoethnography: Synthesizing Your Own Autoethnographies Meta-synthesis for Individualized and Co-authored Autoethnographies (MICA): Synthesizing the Autoethnographies of Others An Example of the MICA Method Summary, Group Activity, Individual Activity and Student Study Site Part III. The Future of Autoethnography: A Prism of Possibility Chapter 6. The Possibility of Autoethnography as Critically Reflexive Action Research (CRAR) What is CRAR and how can it guide autoethnography across paradigms? Epistemologies of Practice Inside and Outside CRAR Promising Examples of Autoethnography as CRAR Summary, Group Activity, Individual Activity and Student Study Site Chapter 7. Anticipating Other Possibilities for Autoethnography What might the future of autoethnography entail? (a) Access and availability and social media (b) Sustained growth, yet skepticism and the politics of acceptance (c) Exploring more qualitative theses and dissertations (d) Journals with a Qualitative Focus that Publish Autoethnographies Summary, Group Activity, Individual Activity and Student Study Site Appendixes: Sample Autoethnography Assignment, Syllabus and Student Work