Duoethnography: Dialogic Methods for Social, Health, and Educational Research

by Joe Norris (Editor), Richard D Sawyer (Editor), Darren Lund (Editor)

Overview

Duoethnography is a collaborative research methodology in which two or more researchers juxtapose their life histories in order to provide multiple understandings of a social phenomenon. Using their own biographies as sites of research and creating dialogic narratives, they provide multiple perspectives of this phenomenon for the reader, inviting the viewer to enter the conversation. The dialectic process of creating duoethnography is also designed to be transformative to the writers. In this volume, two dozen scholars present the first wave of duoethnographic writings on topics as diverse as gender, identity, and curriculum, with the editors framing key tenets of the methodology around the studies presented. This participatory, emancipatory methodology is of interest to those doing qualitative research and narrative writing in many disciplines.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781598746846
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	02/29/2012
Series:	Developing Qualitative Inquiry , #7
Pages:	326
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Joe Norris, Richard D Sawyer, Darren Lund

Table of Contents

1: Toward a Dialogic Methodology; 2: The Hidden Curriculum of Schooling; 3: Postcolonial Education; 4: Responding to Our Muses; 5: Seeking Rigor in the Search for Identity; 6: Power and Privilege; 7: Alleyways and Pathways; 8: Tensions and Contradictions of Living in a Multicultural Nation in an Era of Bounded Identities; 9: Mirror Imaging Diversity Experiences; 10: A Curriculum of Beauty; 11: Professional Boundaries; 12: Dangerous Conversations; 13: Why Duoethnography

Editorial Reviews

For a volume to bridge so many public and private arenas is a challenge - but a successful one! And to do so in such a captivating way - presenting photographs, scripts, songs and other modes of scholarly writing - is a testament to the duality of what can only be called the “rigorous play” at work here. In each chapter, the researchers seem to dance together, pushing and supporting each other, as they explore their chosen territories. I found myself unable to stop reading and engaging with each piece.”

— Lisa M. Given. Professor of Information Studies, Charles Sturt University, Australia

“Always engaging, provocative, and insightful, the authors in Duoethnography present compelling performances of how social science research can be addressed from collaborative, critical, and creative perspectives. This collection of sophisticated and timely scholarship sings with dynamic potential for knowledge dissemination to diverse communities, and hopeful possibilities for transformation in complex personal, political, and pedagogical contexts.”

—Carl Leggo, poet and professor, University of British Columbia, Vancouver

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