Shifting Identities: The Power of/in Teaching Autoethnography
Location
Room 2077
Format Type
Paper
Start Date
January 2011
End Date
January 2011
Abstract
This presentation will provide an autoethnographic account of the experience of teaching, assigning and critiquing social work student's autoethnographies. Nodal moments from five years of utilizing this method in the classroom will be explored including the difficulties of grading the private experiences of students. The presentation will include occasions of shared 2 meaning making as well as private reflection upon the role tension from being a teacher, researcher and confidant.
Shifting Identities: The Power of/in Teaching Autoethnography
Room 2077
This presentation will provide an autoethnographic account of the experience of teaching, assigning and critiquing social work student's autoethnographies. Nodal moments from five years of utilizing this method in the classroom will be explored including the difficulties of grading the private experiences of students. The presentation will include occasions of shared 2 meaning making as well as private reflection upon the role tension from being a teacher, researcher and confidant.
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Breakout Session A