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Showing 1 to 20 of 56 for “"auto-ethnography"”.
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A newly qualified teacher’s competency in handling diversity: an auto-ethnography
… deploys a qualitative research approach and auto-ethnographic methodology to gain a deeper understanding of newly qualified teachers’ competencies in dealing with diversity. A newly qualified teacher’s personal experience and knowledge of diversity within the context of education has been …
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Suicide Terrorism: Understanding the Mindset and Motives
… gathering. The methodology of this study is an auto-ethnography. The auto-ethnography is designed to find understanding of personal experiences using a qualitative method of study. Understanding the motives and mindset of suicide terrorist can be very complex. In the study, variables of …
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Moving: knowledge, image, embodiment and Iranian-American identity in the post-911 USA
… dissertation ascribes an extended methodology of auto-ethnography to the problem of apprehending the cultural and affective crossways symbiotic with post 911, late capitalism, in the United States and on the Transnational Stage. It introduces a performative approach derived from Somatics and forms …
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Fursonas : furries, community, and identity online
… through interviews, participant observation, auto ethnography, and virtual ethnography, I have sought to understand this aspect of furry identity and sociality through a number of disciplinary lenses. In this thesis, I argue that furry queers fandom through several interrelated processes: …
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Beat sociology: Ethnographic journeys in event spaces
… Drawing from critical theory, postmodernism and ethnography, I develop three central 'themes' that help facilitate my project: identity, space, and migrancy. Through auto-ethnography I explore three types of Las Vegas spaces: event spaces, casino spaces and Fremont Street. Las Vegas has gained …
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Transformative Science Education Through Action Research And Self-Study Practices
… others. I begin by presenting an impressionist auto-ethnography, which narrates a personal account of how science and scientific inquiry has been entrenched in me since childhood. I describe how emotions are an important part of how I perceive and respond to the world around me. I describe …
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The Embodiment of Culture: Race and Class in Schools
<h1>Abstract</h1> <p>This auto-ethnographic inquiry into race and culture in public education chronicles the ways in which racism permeates nearly every aspect of schooling. By researching her life and career as a professional educator within a racially charged educational environment, the …
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Rejecting the rejecters: The latent effect of policy on subculture
… extension, their social selves. I then utilize auto-ethnography to show that, perhaps, rejection is a part of all us, and that it never quite escapes our cultural products, our work and those things we create. </p>
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Unbossed and Unbound: How can critical proximity transfigure British colonial moving images?
… studies such as reading against the grain, auto ethnography or critical fabulation, all of which have influenced moving image practices. However there remain ethical questions, in terms of whether these methodologies sufficiently exist outside of the very knowledge systems that create …
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At the Mercy of Ruin: Performative Sites/Sights of Landscapes and Loss
… at various sites of ruined landscapes and of the autobiographical (in)sights of loss I have gleaned in their presence. In speaking from a concept I refer to as the autobiographical imaginative--a performative exchange between land and self where life narratives are summoned as a result of land's …
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“What i see when my eyes fall out”: anticipations, intensifications, immediacies, and transitions of identity construction, affect design, and movement building in digital spaces
… communities, and identities. I demonstrate how autobiography through social media constrains, expands, automates, normalizes, and surveils us as we write, post, and share ourselves into a profoundly communal existence. I argue that social media guides our experiences and understandings of …
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Disciplinarity and literate activity in science: tracing pathways of becoming, writing and practice
… tracing practice across sites of engagement, and auto-ethnography, this research provides a deep dive into how participants engage in science and create knowledge across sites. Findings from this study suggest a renewed attention to representations of scientific practice that recognizes and …
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Redefining the Black superwoman: Racial and gender microaggressions at predominantly white institutions
Using auto-ethnography, this dissertation shares personal experiences through self-reflection of the use of the Strong Black Woman and Black Superwoman archetypes. This dissertation also uses focus groups to obtain a representative of voices of Black women’s experiences at a large Midwestern …
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Voices through my hands: An auto-ethnographic study of the lived experiences of a South African child of Deaf adults
… Africa. Using a qualitative research method, auto-ethnography (specifically an evocative ethnographic method) to generate and analyse data, I endeavour to connect my story to wider cultural, political and social processes. The analysis was informed by literature from d/Deaf studies and a …
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The Journey: From Teacher to Servant Leader/Principal
… is characteristic of the qualitative method of auto-ethnography. This method allows the readers’ emergence in to the world of the researcher, and gives a perspective that is firsthand and personal. My analysis contains a personal account of experiences that revolve around the ten servant …
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Valued Kinds of Knowledge and Ways of Knowing in Mathematics and the Teaching and Learning of Mathematics: A Worldview Analysis
… is based upon a collage of three methodologies: auto/ethnography, Gadamerian hermeneutics, and grounded theory. The initial data source within this dissertation is a personal one, namely the story of how I, the author, have related to mathematics and the teaching and learning of mathematics from …
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Replacing the Handshake with Automated Rules. An exploration of the effects of multi-role performativity during organizational change on the change agent
This is an auto/ethnographic account of one organization and one person as we concurrently moved thru a process of IT driven planned organizational change. The purpose of the study is to explain how the change agent is affected by the experience of leading change. Using actor-network theory and a …
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Surviving and Thriving as a Teacher: Exploring the Emotional Management Struggles and Strategies of Teachers
… this, I used a combined methodology of an auto-ethnography to explore my own lived experiences and empathetic semi-structured interviews with five other teachers. The main findings are categorized into struggles and strategies. Participants identified their struggles with the emotion work …
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Saltine box full of dreams: one Mexican immigrant woman's journey to academic success
<p>"This auto-ethnography/literacy narrative examines the journey of a first-generation Mexican immigrant woman from birth through completion of the master's degree at Eastern Washington University. The purpose of this single case study is to examine how one first-generation Mexican immigrant …
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Decolonizing visualities: changing cultural paradigms, freeing ourselves from Western-centric epistemes.
… logic; case study, narrative inquiry and auto-ethnography as possible tool for collecting, coding and analysing of data.
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