Question Description
Ethnography is about the study of culture (broadly defined). In traditional ethnography, the primary means of data collection is long term observation. This discussion focuses on autoethnography, which is about how the effects of culture impact the life and identity of the author. Please answer the 2 questions below after reading the corresponding articles:
Question 1: (Tisdell: Re-searching spirituality and culture: Transformative pilgrimage learning and living answers into Big Questions)
Tisdell (2020), article (attached) discusses prior research and how it relates to her pilgrimage learning experiences, and the BIG questions of life.
a. What strikes you about her experience as a researcher and how it relates to her autoethnography with pilgrimage learning?
b. What struck you about her story of research
c. What questions does this leave you about collaborative autoethnography?
Question 2: (Colet: MORE THAN A BLACK BELT: EMBODIED LEARNING IN TAEKWONDO WOMEN)
Read Chapter 1 of the dissertation by Cholet (attached), and note how it is structured, and then skim chapter three to note how they discussed their methodology.
a. What interested you about this dissertation, and what did you notice about HOW it was set up?
b. What questions does this leave you with about incorporating autoethnography into a dissertation?