Exploring Our Perceptions of Key Events in a Qualitative Research Class: Applying Principles of Collaborative Analytic Autoethnography in Practice (original) (raw)

Little research portrays the emerging form of collaborative analytic autoethnography in practice. Drawing on our dual lenses, we, a professorand adoctoral student in an advanced qualitative methods course,appliedprinciples of collaborativeanalyticautoethnography to construct new understandings about key events that occurred during advanced qualitative research class.Using asynchronous e-mail communication, weshared,affirmed, andquestioned each other's and our own storied recollections ofmoments of joy and learning intertwined with somechallengingissues.To begin our inquiry, we planned andnegotiatedour responsibilities,voiced our concerns and questionspertinent to the project,andavowed our willingness to risk emotional vulnerability anddiscomfortas weconfronted our truths. We also studied the extant literature to learn as much as we could aboutthe emerginggenre of analytic autoethnography. In the second phase of our work we documentedwhat we believed weresignificant moments in the course and responded to each other's and our own assumptions. Our reflections helped establish the value ofcollaborative analytic autoethnography tocreate space for self-study.In keeping with tenets of analytic autoethnography, philosophically we had reservations generalizing our discoveries to broader social phenomena,