PDC05: Autoethnography: Product, Process, and Possibility for Public Scholarship to Educate Diverse Democracies

Session Type: Professional Development Course

Abstract

The purpose of the course is to provide information to participants, graduate students, and prospective and novice university professors on how to apply autoethnography as public scholarship to educate diverse democracies (i.e., to address diversity in culture, politics, race, class, gender, and religion). This session will target qualitative and mixed-methods researchers who seek a methodological alternative from neutral, anonymous, and objectivist orientations to educational policy and practice. Information will be provided related to applied autoethnography as a process involving six key decisions; epistemologies of practice/critical reflexive action research; integrating autoethnography into research and teaching; and publishing defensible autoethnography findings in reputable journals. Participants will learn how to add autoethnography as an alternative tool in their methodological toolkits for translating their own autoethnographic work into public scholarship.

Sub Unit

• Professional Development and Training Committee

Instructors

• Sherick A. Hughes, University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill

• Julie L. Pennington, University of Nevada - Reno

• Nitasha M. Clark, Educational Specialities