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Autoethnography as a wide-angle lens on looking (inward and outward)

Claudia Mitchell

pp. 175-189

Abstract

One of the defining features of autoethnography that binds all autoethnographies, as Holman Jones, Adams, and Ellis observed, "is the use of personal experience to examine and/or critique cultural experience" (2013, p. 7). In this chapter, I address the question of how autoethnography can contribute to teaching in higher education institutions, and situate this work in the context of South Africa.

Publication details

Published in:

Pillay Daisy, Naicker Inbanathan, Pithouse-Morgan Kathleen (2016) Academic autoethnographies: inside teaching in higher education. Rotterdam, SensePublishers.

Pages: 175-189

DOI: 10.1007/978-94-6300-399-5_12

Full citation:

Mitchell Claudia (2016) „Autoethnography as a wide-angle lens on looking (inward and outward)“, In: D. Pillay, I. Naicker & K. Pithouse-Morgan (eds.), Academic autoethnographies, Rotterdam, SensePublishers, 175–189.