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| Unit name |
Auto-Ethnography |
| Unit code |
EDUCD0071 |
| Credit points |
20 |
| Level of study |
D/8
|
| Teaching block(s) |
Academic Year (weeks 1 - 52)
|
| Unit director |
Professor. Speedy |
| Open unit status |
Not open |
| Pre-requisites |
Narrative Inquiry for Narrative Pathway |
| Co-requisites |
Understanding Educational Research, Preparation for Dissertation |
| School/department |
School of Education |
| Faculty |
Faculty of Social Sciences and Law |
Description including Unit Aims
This unit is designed to give participants a critical awareness of writing as a research method. The unit will explore, review and practice creative, evocative, poetic, experimental and engaging writing strategies as legitimate re-search sites. Fictionalised and creative research accounts, layered accounts, and poetic narratives will be included as examples within a range of written re-presentation methods. There will be opportunities to participate in critical reading groups and writers workshops and improve writing strategies and critical capacities.
Intended Learning Outcomes
It is anticipated that upon completion of this unit participants will have:
- Developed a knowledge and understanding of writing as a method of inquiry and of narrative ethics and aesthetics
- Identified, evaluated and experimented with a range of writing strategies in terms of research process and progress as well as ‘product’
- Demonstrated and situated their own developing writing style(s)
Teaching Information
Teaching and learning opportunities will include presentations, seminars, critical reading groups
and creative writing workshops.
Assessment Information
Either a written or multimodal assignment equivalent to 4000 words.
Reading and References
- Brettell, C (1997) Blurred genres and blended voices: life history, biography, autobiography and the auto-ethnography of women’s lives, In: Reed-Danahay, D (Ed.) Auto/ethnography: Researching the self and the social, Oxford: Berg
- Holman-Jones, S (2005) Auto-ethnography: Making the personal political, in: Denzin, N & Lincoln, Y (Eds.) (3rd Ed.) Sage Handbook Of Qualitative Research, Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage
- Delamont, S (2009) The only honest thing: autoethnography, reflexivity and small crises in fieldwork, Ethnography and Education, 4(1), 51-63.
- Anderson, L (2006) Analytic Autoethnography, Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, 35; 373-395.
- Ellis, C & Bochner, A (2006) Analyzing Analytic Autoethnography: An Autopsy, Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, 35(4), 429-449.
- Sparkes, A (2001) Auto-ethnography: self indulgence or something more, in: Bochner, A & Ellis, C (Eds.) Ethnographically Speaking, Walnut Creek, CA: Alta Mira Press
