Full Description
An Autoethnography of Becoming a Qualitative Researcher chronicles Trude Klevan's personal experiences of her doctoral journey, with Alec Grant as an external academic resource and friend, and her subsequent entry into the neoliberal higher education environment. It gives a personal and intimate view of what it's like to become an academic.
This book is constructed as an extended dialogue which frequently utilizes email exchanges as data. Firmly grounded in the epistemic resource of friendship, it tells the story of the authors' symbiotic academic growth around their critical understanding and knowledge of qualitative inquiry and the purposes of such knowledge. The tale told is of the unfolding of a close and mutually beneficial relationship, entangled within sometimes facilitative, sometimes problematic, environmental contexts. It uses these experiences to describe, explore, and critically interrogate some underlying themes of the philosophies, politics, and practices of qualitative inquiry, and of higher education. Disrupting conventional academic norms through their work, friendship, and correspondence, Trude and Alec offer a critical and epistemological view of what it's like to become a qualitative researcher, and how we can do things differently in higher education.
This book is suitable for all researchers and students, their supervisors, mentors, and teachers, and academics of qualitative research and autoethnography, and those interested in critiques of higher education.
Contents
Foreword
Pat Sikes, Ken Gale and Jonathan Wyatt
Acknowledgements
Prologue
The Colour Of Water: An Autoethnographically Inspired Journey of My Becoming a Researcher
The PhD Project and the Novice Researcher Entering Academia
The Hermeneutic Phenomenological Turn and Beyond
The Narrative Turn
The Discursive Approach
Diffraction, Entanglement and Difference
Friendship, Trouble Nurturing, and Performing Wild Time
Playing the Game or Striving to Play?
References
Index
