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I follow Richardson, who argues that “[t]he ethnographic life is not separable fromthe Self” (Richardson & St. Pierre, 2005, p. 965) and sees the potential of personal narrativesin using them as “the structures through which [we] make sense of [our] world” (p. 966).
I, nonetheless, do not see this project as an opportunity for self exploration, even though that is a result. These memories, moments, and conversations already belong to me, and I don't need to put them into this format in order to necessarily learn from them. I see this project as a way for one person who has experiences similar to many others to reflect honestly about how learning and applying concepts in a small-scale, relatively informal setting can be challenging, confusing, and isolating. I hope that whoever reads this the
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Writing “tactics” arerequired to draw attention to these disjunctions and the “linguistic and fictive nature [ofautoethnography],” so that personal history can be implicated in larger social formations andhistorical processes (Fischer, 1986, p. 194).
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thatalthough memory is selective and shaped, and is retold in the continuum of one’s experience, thisdoes not necessarily constitute lying.
Writing about one's memories involves just as much the occurance in the past as it does the way the storyteller feels about it in the present. My memory episode may have happened in the past, but my analysis of it and what I continue to take from that memory is very much active in the present.
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- Feb 2023
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a critical examination of epistemologyand research methodology is inseparable from ethical standards andpolitical commitments to social justice
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For instance, CLP researchon the Ebonics controversy in the United States examines (1) the roleof school language policies in racist educational systems (Baugh, 2000),and (2) the impact of standard language ideology on attitudes towardAfrican American Vernacular English and other stigmatized varieties(Lippi-Green, 1997
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