Open AccessAutoethnography: Writing Lives and Telling Stories
Author(s) -
Bal Chandra Luitel,
Niroj Dahal
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
journal of transformative praxis
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2738-9529
pISSN - 2717-5081
DOI - 10.51474/jrtp.v2i1.530
Subject(s) - autoethnography , reflexivity , narrative , sociology , storytelling , critical ethnography , ethnography , indigenous , politics , pedagogy , aesthetics , gender studies , social science , literature , art , anthropology , political science , ecology , law , biology
Autoethnography covers a wide range of narrative representations, thereby bridging the gap of the boundaries by expressing autoethnographers’ painful and gainful lived experiences. These representations arise from local stories, vignettes, dialogues, and role plays by unfolding action, reaction, and interaction in the form of self-narration. Likewise, the autoethnographic texts must exhibit the autoethnographers’ critical reflections on the overall process of the inquiry. These exhibitions shall alert the autoethnographers’ research ethics, reflexivity, alternative modes of representation, inquiry, and storytelling. The original articles in this issue that rises from the domain of critical social theories within the various ranges of theoretical perspectives include journeying through informing, reforming, and transforming teacher education; critical ethnographic research tradition; a critical and political reading of the excerpts of myths; climate change education and its interface with indigenous knowledge and general traits of the participants as transformed teachers.