The Color of Water: An Autoethnographically-Inspired Journey of my Becoming a Researcher
Location
DeSantis Room 3029
Format Type
Plenary
Format Type
Paper
Start Date
16-1-2020 9:45 AM
End Date
16-1-2020 10:05 AM
Abstract
In this paper, the first author autoethnographically describes, discusses and reflects on her process of becoming a researcher, based on her PhD journey. She explores how the development of knowledge and her understandings of what counts as knowledge is entangled with her personal and professional development. The second and third authors join with her to explore and comment on the ways in which her doctoral topic knowledge and her process of becoming a researcher co-evolved. On this basis, all authors challenge and trouble what counts as qualitative knowledge and inquiry in contemporary academia, and discuss the need for the provision of curiosity-nurturing and troubling environments.
Keywords
autoethnography, onto-epistemology, troubling, critical qualitative inquiry, becoming a researcher
The Color of Water: An Autoethnographically-Inspired Journey of my Becoming a Researcher
DeSantis Room 3029
In this paper, the first author autoethnographically describes, discusses and reflects on her process of becoming a researcher, based on her PhD journey. She explores how the development of knowledge and her understandings of what counts as knowledge is entangled with her personal and professional development. The second and third authors join with her to explore and comment on the ways in which her doctoral topic knowledge and her process of becoming a researcher co-evolved. On this basis, all authors challenge and trouble what counts as qualitative knowledge and inquiry in contemporary academia, and discuss the need for the provision of curiosity-nurturing and troubling environments.
Comments
Accepted paper to be published in The Qualitative Report Volume 24, Number 6, June 3, 2019