Autoethnography

Sherick Hughes, PhD, 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

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

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