A Methodology of Languaging Self examines the role of critical methodology in literacy and language practices.
Employing globally diverse autoethnographic approaches, it highlights varying perspectives and lived experiences from marginalised authors. Through a decolonial lens, this book offers fresh insights into the complexities of literacy and language practices. Drawing together marginalised voices and experiences through creativity and authentic (re)presentation, this book considers how autoethnography and qualitative methods can work within literacy and language studies. Focusing on educational studies, chapters include research on the experience of Latinx students in a Florida classroom, developing teacher identity in Indonesia, and autoethnographic genealogical writing. Readers will benefit from the engagement with decolonial critical theory threaded throughout the book's multiple sections, in addition to the exploration into reflective and narrative methods in particular chapters.
This book will be essential reading not only for qualitative researchers interested in ethnography and autoethnography, but also students and teachers in literacy and language related fields.
Table of Contents:
About the Editor
List of Contributors
Introduction
What Is It to Be in A World? An Introduction to Probing Autoethnography
Jason D. DeHart
Chapter 1
The Seeds that Were Planted: How Schools Cultivate Erasure in the Lives of Latinx Children
Jennifer M. Barreto
Jonathan M. Coker
Chapter 2
“Spinner Rack Kids:” Autoethnographic Reflections on Fandom and the Changing Structure of Texts and Self
Jason D. DeHart
Chapter 3
A Critical Autoethnography of an International Graduate Teaching Assistant (IGTA)
Thir B. Budhathoki
Chapter 4
Attending to the (Re)past: A Blackgirl Autoethnography of Mourning
S. R. Toliver
Chapter 5
Autoethnographic Exploration of a First Generation Academic and the Role of Literacy
Jason D. DeHart
Chapter 6
Becoming a Teacher-Researcher-Writer in the Indonesian EFL Context: A Multimodal Autoethnography
Sandi Ferdiansyah
Chapter 7
Weaving the Personal and Political: Autoethnography as Exploratory Research Writing
Leslie S. Cook
Chapter 8
Critical Autoethnography and Disability
Karen Zecca
Afterword
The Self(ed) Meta-Narrative as Research: Limitations and Liberties
Jason D. DeHart
