A Critical Co/Autoethnographic Exploration of Self: Becoming Science Education Researchers in Diverse Cultural and Linguistic Landscapes

Teaching Mental Health and Well-Being Online in a Crisis: Fostering Love and Self-compassion in Clinical Social Work Education

“…The COVID-19 public health crisis disrupted our usual ways of engagement with students and colleagues but presented opportunities for enhancing our teaching practices. This reflexive collaborative autoethnography (Fook 2016 ; Park and Wilmer 2019 ) was undertaken by a group of educators from Australia, the United States, the United Kingdom and Nigeria. Research group members drew upon different non-dominant sociocultural positionalities and experiences to contribute to the narrative case study (Hartman 2017 ) at one social work program at an Australian university.…”

“…Hartman ( 2017 ) recommends narrative case studies to challenge normative phenomena and understandings of lived experience in social work practice and focus on the production of context-dependent knowledge by and with non-dominant cultural groups. Therefore, we decided to utilize a reflexive (Fook 2016 ) collaborative autoethnography or “co-autoethnography” (Park and Wilmer 2019 , p. 141) methodology to undertake a reflexive and systematic analysis of our different and shared experiences of learning as SWE. We understand autoethnography as a method of self-observation and reflexive investigation of our feelings, actions and practice as educators.…”

“…This article uses a reflexive (Fook 2016 ) collaborative autoethnographic approach (Park and Wilmer 2019 ) to explore how our practice as educators has needed to change radically because of the pandemic. Reflexive or reflexivity refers to a stance or positionality concerning how the educator’s actions influence practice (Fook 2016 ).…”

Expanding collaborative autoethnography into the world of natural science for transdisciplinary teams

“…More recently, teams of social scientist collaboratives have been applying autoethnographies. 26 , 27 , 28 , 29 Collaborative autoethnography centers expertise among peers to understand the same target from multiple self-observations to arrive at a shared understanding. 30 However, most researchers who embark on collaborative autoethnography do so after having “agreed on the importance of ‘data of the self’ as relevant in social inquiry.” 30 The present study flips this idea on its head, by using the research process to convince skeptical scientists that subjective observations can be considered legitimate data that can be rigorously analyzed.…”