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Record Nr.

UNINA9910828322003321

Titolo

Narrating social work through autoethnography / / Stanley Witkin

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, NY : , : Columbia University Press, , [2014]

©2014

ISBN

0-231-53762-X

Edizione

[Pilot project. eBook available to selected US libraries only]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (381 p.)

Disciplina

361.301

Soggetti

Autobiography

Ethnosociology

Narrative inquiry (Research method)

Social service -- Practice

Social service -- Research

Social workers

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Chapter 1. Autoethnography / Witkin, Stanley L. -- Chapter 2. Where's Beebee? / Mccrea, Katherine Tyson -- Chapter 3. A Finn in India / Ranta-Tyrkkö, Satu -- Chapter 4. Being of Two Minds / Ishibashi Martinez, Noriko -- Chapter 5. Learning From and Researching (My Own) Experience / Fook, Jan -- Chapter 6. What Remains? / Staller, Karen -- Chapter 7. What Matters Most in Living and Dying / Solomon, Brenda -- Chapter 8. Will You Be with Me to the End? / Hefel, Johanna -- Chapter 9. Holding On While Letting Go / Farrell Delaney, Orlagh / Kennedy, Patricia -- Chapter 10. The Pretty Girl in the Mirror / Irving, Allan -- Chapter 11. Reality Isn't What It Used to Be / Witkin, Stanley L. -- Chapter 12. From Advising to Mentoring to Becoming Colleagues / Eisikovits, Zvi / Koren, Chaya -- Contributors -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

Autoethnography is an innovative approach to inquiry located in the interstices between science and literature. Blending researcher and subject roles, autoethnographers use analytical strategies to explore the social and cultural contexts of meaningful life experiences and their implications for the present. Social issues are described from the inside



out, producing narratives that reflect the messy, experiential encounters of everyday life. This collection illustrates the value of autoethnography as an inquiry approach for social work practice. Covering such topics as international adoption, cross-dressing, divorce, cultural competence, life-threatening illness, and transformative change, contributors showcase the ambiguities, doubts, contradictions, insights, tensions, and epiphanies that accompany their experiences. This anthology provides a readable and unique example of an exciting new trend in qualitative research.