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Autoethnography Reveals Our Epistemology, Ontology, and Axiology as Ph.D. Students and Researchers

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Two PhD students and their research methods instructor, in a self-study, used autoethnography to uncover the students’ worldviews, consisting of epistemology, ontology, and axiology. Data include student autoethnographies, student and instructor narratives, and an instructor-led discussion. The students had two roles, participants and researchers. The students had experience with quantitative methods from their Master’s degrees and had had no exposure to philosophical foundations in their previous work. They had simply followed the interests of their supervisors. Using narrative analysis, the students articulated that the philosophical foundations and autoethnography had opened a new world for them as they came to understand their worldviews and how this conceptual thinking was influencing their changing views of research and their roles as researchers.

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