Auto/biography and auto/ethnography : : praxis of research method / / W.- M. Roth.

• Superior document: Bold visions in educational research ; Volume 2
• VerfasserIn: Roth, W.- M.,
• Place / Publishing House: Rotterdam ;, Taipei : : Sense Publishers,, [2005]; ©2005
• Year of Publication: 2005
• Language: English
• Series: Bold visions in educational research ; Volume 2.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

In a number of academic disciplines, auto/biography and auto/ethnography have become central means of critiquing of the ways in which research represents individuals and their cultures. Auto/biography and auto/ethnography are genres that blend ethnographic interests with life writing and they tell about a culture at the same time they tell about an individual life. This book presents educational researchers, in exemplary form, the possibilities and constraints of both auto/biography and auto/ethnography as methods of doing educational research. The contributors to this volume explore, by means of examples, auto/biography and auto/ethnography as means for critical analysis and as tool kit for the different stakeholders in education. The four thematic sections deal with: a. different possible uses and constraints of the two methods b. understanding teaching and teaching to learn c. institutional critiques d. experiences and trajectories as evidence of a sociology of everyday life. The book was written to be used by upper undergraduate and graduate students taking courses in research design; because of its practical approach, it is highly suitable for those contexts where research methods courses do not exist. The audience also includes professors, who want to have a reference on design and methodology, and those who have not yet had the opportunity to employ a particular method.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material / W.-M. Roth -- Auto/Biography and Auto/Ethnography: Finding the Generalized Other in the Self -- Greater Objectivity through Local Knowledge / Angela Calabrese Barton and Darkside -- Fictive Imagining and Moral Purpose: Autobiographical Research as/for Transformative Development / Les Pereira , Elisabeth Settelmaier and Peter Taylor -- Auto/Method: Toward a Dialectical Sociology of Everyday Life -- Scientific Experience and the Researcher's Body / Franz Breuer -- Unraveling the Allure of Auto/Biography / Alberto Rodriguez -- Auto/Biography and Ideological Blindness -- Auto/biography and Critical Ontology: Being a Teacher, Developing a Reflective Teacher Persona / Joe Kincheloe -- Becoming an Urban Science Educator / Kenneth Tobin -- A Rose in a Mirror / Margery D. Osborne -- Using Webs of Narrative to Explore Negotiation of Meaning and Practice / David R. Geelan -- Transacting with Auto/Biography in the Teaching of Elementary Science / Judith A. McGonigal -- Biomythography in Teacher Education / Sharon E. Nichols and Deborah J. Tippins -- Boundaries and Selves in the Making of"Science" / Margaret Eisenhart -- Vagaries and Politics of Funding Educational Research -- A Snake in the Nest or In a Snake's Nest: Peer Review for a Female Science Educator / Kate Scantlebury -- Grave Tending: With Mom at the Cemetery / Carolyn Ellis -- The Write of Passage: Reflections on Writing a Dissertation in Narrative Methodology / Chaim Noy -- Becoming and Belonging: Learning to Do Qualitative Research / Stuart Lee and Wolff-Michael Roth -- Home and Away: Self-Reflexive Auto/Ethnography / Christiane Kraft Alsop -- What Bang for the Buck? Usefulness of Auto/Biography and Auto/Ethnography to Collective Knowledge / Franz Breuer and Wolff-Michael Roth -- Index / W.-M. Roth.