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Brendan Hyde – International Journal of Research & Method in Education, 2025
Arguing that teacher reflection on events as a research method is necessary for naming unrecognized values and moral responsibility that have informed current practice, I apply phenomenological reflection to an event with a child from my own classroom experience, recorded through autoethnographic writing, to show how the significance of this…
Descriptors: Reflective Teaching, Research Methodology, Educational Research, Phenomenology
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Lois Peach – International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education (QSE), 2025
Stories are more than they seem. Stories can connect humans with other humans, more-than-human things, animals, places and times. And stories can disrupt dominant ways of knowing and being in the world (Ranco & Haverkamp, 2022). Re-telling stories of connection and disruption in research, this paper shares four short autoethnographic musings,…
Descriptors: Story Telling, Autobiographies, Ethnography, Memory
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Turunen, Tuija A.; Dockett, Sue; Perry, Bob – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2015
This article reports on methodological issues in the study of autobiographical narratives about transition to school within a life course approach. The data consist of 89 Australian participants' recollections of starting school between 1928 and 1995. These narratives are considered as life reviews and part of the story of "continuing…
Descriptors: Autobiographies, Personal Narratives, Foreign Countries, Research Methodology
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van Schalkwyk, Gertina J. – Qualitative Report, 2010
A basic premise in narrative therapy and inquiry is that life story telling is a mechanism by which experiences are rendered meaningful within some form of structure. However, narrative inquiry has to take cognisance of difficulties ensuing from discursive practices for different populations when eliciting their life stories. In this article I…
Descriptors: Autobiographies, Memory, Story Telling, Inquiry
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Lapadat, Judith C. – Qualitative Inquiry, 2009
From her experience as an instructor, the author finds that it is valuable to engage graduate students in conducting a study within their qualitative methods course. In this article, the author discusses how she used a collaborative autobiographical research approach. Class members generate autobiographical writing to be shared with the group, and…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Methods Courses, Curriculum, Ethics
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Brogden, Lace Marie – Qualitative Inquiry, 2008
Contemporary curriculum theorists conceptualize curriculum, schooling, and the teacher as sites of discursive production and as dwelling places for theory. Drawing on memory work around childhood report cards, this article uses commonplace artifacts to reassemble autoethnographic memory. In sifting through memories and artifacts, the author…
Descriptors: Report Cards, Theory Practice Relationship, Memory, Reflective Teaching