Taking Responsibility: Autoethnography as Reflexive Practice in Social Studies Research and Teaching

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

This session, featuring a range of autoethnographic work, creates new space for thinking differently about reflexivity in social studies research and pedagogical practices. In the first part of the session, five social studies scholars share their autoethnographies to demonstrate how they engage in self-reflective practices and discuss why taking responsibility for their positionality is necessary for social studies research and teacher education, which for all is focused on social justice aims. The second part of the session aims to open a discussion and revisioning with participants for how autoethnographic methods can become an integral part of social studies research and teacher education.

Sub Unit

• SIG-Social Studies Research

Chair

• Sarah B. Shear, The Pennsylvania State University - Altoona

Papers

• Journey to Transformation in Teaching and Research: Teaching for Critical Citizenship - Sunny Wells, Baylor University

• Self-Inquiry of a Gatekeeper: Tending to the Connections Between Research and Reflexivity - Teresa Bergstrom, University of South Florida

• Racial Epiphanies: My Journey Toward Becoming an Antiracist Educator - Andrea M Hawkman, University of Missouri

• In Battle With Myself: An Autoethnography on Encountering Race - Rebecca C. Aguayo, University of Missouri

• Turning the Mirror on (My)Self: Autoethnography as Interrogation of Settler-Colonial Heritage - Sarah B. Shear, The Pennsylvania State University - Altoona