Placing Autoethnography and Self-Study in their Broader Methodological Perspectives: Present Applications and Predicted Implications
摘要
The preceding chapters in this handbook have varied widely in their national and regional locations, their sociocultural contexts, their conceptual orientations and their methodological strategies. Yet each of them has generated fresh insights into the productive potential of employing autoethnography and/or self-study as rigorous and relevant research methods. Moreover, in combination, the chapters have prompted compelling responses to the five reflective questions framing the book. This chapter distils the research insights articulated in the preceding chapters by synthesising their responses to the book’s reflective questions. In doing so, the editors place autoethnography and self-study in their broader methodological perspectives, as well as articulating their present applications and their predicted implications for possible future trajectories of both methodologies in contemporary education research.