Using Vignettes Within Autoethnography to Explore Layers of Cross-Cultural Awareness as a Teacher

Abstract: With this article I aim to progress the use of vignettes within autoethnography by explaining the conceptual framework for my structured vignette analysis. In researching my role as a teacher of a group of Timor-Leste vocational education professionals I have undertaken a phenomenological study using autoethnography to highlight the existential shifts in my cultural understanding. I use vignettes to place myself within the social context, to explore my positionality as a researcher and to carefully self-monitor the impact of my biases, beliefs and personal experiences on the teacher-student relationship. To assist my analysis I developed a structured method for analysing each vignette to reveal layers of awareness that might otherwise remain experienced but concealed. In my analysis I describe the context, the experience told as a personal story, the emotional impact on me of this experience and my reflexivity to the described experience. I identify strategies I developed resulting.... https://www.qualitative-research.net/index.php/fqs/article/view/2393

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• Location: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
• Extent: Online-Ressource
• Language: Englisch

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• Bibliographic citation: Using Vignettes Within Autoethnography to Explore Layers of Cross-Cultural Awareness as a Teacher ; volume:17 ; number:1 ; day:29 ; month:11 ; year:2015 ; Forum qualitative Sozialforschung ; 17, Heft 1 (29.11.2015)

Contributors, Places and Time

• Creator: Pitard, Jayne

Further information

• DOI: 10.17169/fqs-17.1.2393
• URN: urn:nbn:de:0114-fqs1601119
• Rights: Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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