Autoethnography as a Lighthouse: Illuminating Race, Research, and the Politics of Schooling (Contemporary Perspectives on Access, Equity, and Achievement) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1623968224 ISBN 13: 9781623968229

Publisher: Information Age Publishing, 2015

Synopsis

A volume in Contemporary Perspectives on Access, Equity and Achievement Series Editor Chance W. Lewis, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, The purposes of this book are rooted in the move from invisibility to visibility and silence to voice. This work uses autoethnography as an enterprise to break down traditional barriers that support the invisibility of diverse epistemologies (Altheide & Johnson,2011). The reality of invisibility and silence has plagued scholars of color in their attempt to make known the cultural significance found in the planning and execution of research. As a result, this book purposes to support the visibility and voice of scholars of color who conduct autoethnographic research from a racial, gendered, and critical theoretical framework. This work further supports the research community as it examines and reexamines culturally indigenous epistemologies as a viable vehicle for rigorous and authentic inquiry (Dillard, 2000). The significance of this book can begrafted from its attention to new ways of thinking about doing research. While much of the previous scholarship on autoethnography highlights the importance of personal narrative and voice, this book includes the latter but also examines the concept of race and culture as undisputable factors in the doing of research. Burdell & Swadener (1999) contends that autoethnography should interrogate the subjective nature and question master narratives and empirical assumptions. Spry (2011) emphasizes autoethnography as a moral discourse that foster intimate experiences grounded in historical processes. Authoethnographic research then, has the potential to provide a lens by which researchers candelve into research with a greater sense of personal experiences and critical understanding of the inquiry context.

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About the Author

Stephen Hancock Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USAAyana Allen Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USAChance W. Lewis, University of North Carolina at Charlotte

Edition details

• Publisher: Information Age Publishing
• Publication date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1623968224
• ISBN 13: 9781623968229
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 194
• Editor: Hancock Stephen D., Allen Ayana, Lewis Chance W.