Autoethnography Pedagogy and Practice

Stories of Interdisciplinary Innovation

Kitrina Douglas, David Carless

• Publisher: Taylor & Francis
• Year: 2025
• eBook ISBN: 9781040345931
• Edition: 0
• Topic: Psychology
• Subtopic: Social Science Research & Methodology
• Index: Psychology

Autoethnography Pedagogy and Practice supports and generates new insights into how autoethnography can be taught, supervised and practised by sharing the experiences and reflections of researchers from a wide range of fields and disciplines.

An international cast of leading researchers provide practical examples of how autoethnography can be successfully introduced into health and human sciences curricula, showcasing examples of the power of autoethnography within and beyond academia. By privileging contributors' experiences within their own field of study as students, teachers, supervisors and researchers, this book explores how autoethnography can be introduced, nurtured and sustained in challenging academic environments. Each chapter considers three interrelated areas: Disciplinary Contexts, which examines autoethnography's impact across different fields; Relationships, which considers how to successfully manage relational and care dynamics from undergraduate through professor levels; and Ethics, which addresses the many ethical considerations that can arise across a wide range of contexts.

Autoethnography Pedagogy and Practice is a book that encourages readers to engage in autoethnographic practice to create innovative, dialogical and collaborative texts that push the boundaries of polyvocality and diversity within their own disciplines. It will be of interest to researchers in Psychology, Medicine, Pharmacology, Allied Health, Nursing, Mental health, Sport and Exercise Science, Coaching, Sociology, Psychotherapy, Theatre Studies and Communication Studies.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Endorsements
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• List of contributors
• Acknowledgements
• Prologue: A mosaic of autoethnography pedagogy and practice
• 1 ‘Research group’: democratising pedagogy through autoethnography
• 2 A body and a dark hospital room: experiences of death on clinical placements
• 3 Researching, teaching and learning from and through autoethnography in nursing and health sciences
• 4 Crystallising experiences, shaping pedagogies: from personal journeys to an autoethnographic community in Japan
• 5 Autoethnography in pharmacy education and practice
• 6 “This is how the system works”: A collaborative attempt to explore the power of being systematically non-systematic in mentoring and teaching autoethnography
• 7 Healthcare pedagogy, COVID-19 transformations, and the operating department practitioner
• 8 Teaching and learning (together) to conduct autoethnography in Spain: A case from the perspective of gender studies
• 9 ‘The anatomical highlight of your first year’: blending the territories of medicine and art through autoethnography
• 10 ‘The gift’: developing autoethnographic practice in psychology
• 11 Creating space for autoethnography and auto/biography within and beyond the academy
• 12 Learning together: some jointly constructed reflections on a creative autoethnographic doctoral journey
• 13 Creative relationships, novel responses and falling in love: reflections on teaching and learning in autoethnography
• Epilogue: joining hands
• Index