Collaborative Autoethnography [Paperback]

It sounds like a paradox: How do you engage in autoethnography collaboratively? Heewon Chang, Faith Ngunjiri, and Kathy-Ann Hernandez break new ground on this blossoming new array of research models, collectively labeled Collaborative Autoethnography. Their book serves as a practical guide by providing you with a variety of data collection, analytic, and writing techniques to conduct collaborative projects. It also answers your questions about the bigger picture: What advantages does a collaborative approach offer to autoethnography? What are some of the methodological, ethical, and interpersonal challenges you’ll encounter along the way? Model collaborative autoethnographies and writing prompts are included in the appendixes. This exceptional, in-depth resource will help you explore this exciting new frontier in qualitative methods.

A practical guide providing researchers with a variety of data collection, analytic, and writing techniques to conduct collaborative autoethnography projects.

Heewon Chang, Ph. D., is a professor of multicultural education and organizational leadership at Eastern University in Pennsylvania, USA. After completing a bachelor’s degree in education at Yonsei University in South Korea, she came to the University of Oregon to pursue a Master’s and Ph. D. in educational anthropology under the tutelage of Dr. Harry Wolcott. She founded two open-access scholarly journals and currently serves the International Journal of Multicultural Education (www.ijme-journal.org) as Editor-in-Chief.  She has authored/edited three books: Adolescent Life and Ethos: An Ethnography of a US High School (1992), Autoethnography as Method (2008), and Spirituality in Higher Education: Autoethnographies (2011, edited with Drick Boyd). Her research agenda includes qualitative research methods including autoethnography, leadership mentoring, educational equity and justice, multicultural education, and anthropology of educatló%