Call for chapter abstracts: Autoethnography and self-study

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AUTOETHNOGRAPHY AND SELF-STUDY AS EDUCATION RESEARCH METHODS:
CONTINUING DEBATES AND CONTEMPORARY APPLICATIONS

Edited by
Deborah L. Mulligan*, Emilio A. Anteliz# and Patrick Alan Danaher*,+,^
*University of Southern Queensland, Australia
#Central University of Venezuela, Venezuela
+Central Queensland University, Australia
^University of Helsinki, Finland

FOCUS AND RATIONALE
There is recurring and increasing scholarly interest in the ethical and methodological possibilities of autoethnography and self-study as research methods in education (understood broadly and inclusively as encompassing learning and/or teaching in diverse forms and ranging from formal and structured on the one hand to informal and incidental on the other hand). Against the backdrop of that scholarly interest, this proposed edited research book is centred on continuing debates and contemporary applications related to autoethnography and self-study. These continuing debates include the perceived legitimacy and rigour of focusing on the researcher as self, the relationship between that focus and wider conceptualisations of the self and…

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