Narrating social work through autoethnography / Stanley Witkin.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Witkin, Stanley, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Autobiography.

Ethnosociology.

Narrative inquiry (Research method).

Social service--Practice.

Social service--Research.

Social workers.

Local Subjects:

Autobiography.

Ethnosociology.

Narrative inquiry (Research method).

Social service--Practice.

Social service--Research.

Social workers.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (381 p.)

Place of Publication:

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

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Pilot project,eBook available to selected US libraries only

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)

ISBN:

9780231537629

023153762X

OCLC:

880530798