Autoethnography as a Research Method to Examine Women's English Language Teaching (ELT) Leadership Development in Transnational Spaces

Session Type: Working Group Roundtable

Abstract

This Working Group Roundtable explores the applicability of autoethnography as a research method for women’s leadership development in transnational spaces within English Language Teaching (ELT). This Roundtable gathers six transnational women leaders, from varying global ELT higher education contexts, such as Egypt, China, Colombia, and Qatar, now working in Canada and the United States, who use autoethnography to understand their leadership development. After discussing autoethnography as a research method, each autoethnographer shares their experience writing collaborative and/or individual autoethnographies, their questions, methodological approaches, challenges, and conclusions, specifically using autoethnography to uncover how they negotiate leadership identities and practices, while living and working within plurilingual and pluricultural spaces. Major emphasis is on implications for transnational ELT women leaders using autoethnography.

Sub Unit

• SIG-Research on Women and Education

Chair

• Debra Suarez, Johns Hopkins University

Papers

• Autoethnography as a Research Method to Examine Women's ELT Leadership Development in Transnational Spaces: Opening - Doaa Rashed, Rutgers University

• Autoethnography as a Research Method to Examine Women's ELT Leadership Development in Transnational Spaces: Commentaries - Debra Suarez, Johns Hopkins University; Doaa Rashed, Rutgers University; Kate Mastruserio Reynolds, Central Washington University; Xatli Stox, University of Wisconsin - Madison; Lan Wang-Hiles, West Virginia State University; Ana-Marija Petrunic, George Brown College