Reflecting on Autoethnographic and Phenomenological Experiences : A Caregiver's Journey.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Collins, Donald.

Series:

Qualitative Inquiry

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ethnology.

Autobiography.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (149 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Reflecting on Autoethnographic and Phenomenological Experiences

Place of Publication:

Bloomfield : Myers Education Press, 2021.

Summary:

Reflecting on Autoethnographic and Phenomenological Experiences: A Caregiver's Journeyis a unique critical qualitative inquiry study that uses the author's experience as a caregiver to his wife suffering from dementia as the basis of a critical autoethnography. It explores components of positive caregiving that may be not only melancholic and empirical, but also emotionally painful. The book employs multiple approaches that include critical narrative, phenomenology, autoethnography and experiential writing. Through a phenomenological lens of an insider that includes self- and other-hood, marriage, career, fatherhood, suicide, despair, triple grief, loss, caregiving, cooking, housekeeping, advocating mind reading, and encouraging, a narrative illustrating self-reflection on particular experiences is constructed. These culminating experiences result in first-hand and didactical understandings by the caregiver. Individual, personal, and subjective interpretation of relational happenings are explored. Reflective journaling and observations of the seasons of marital life seek to understand if and how shared experiences transcend multiple contexts and help the reader understand experiences of dementia. Reflecting on Autoethnographic and Phenomenological Experiences: A Caregiver's Journey is a volume that will be invaluable to qualitative inquiry researchers, autoethnographers, and those readers interested in the research of caregiving.

Contents:

Cover

Half-Title

Title

Copyright

Dedication

Contents

Prologue: Remembering

Chapter 1: Introducing a Caregiver Researcher's Life

Chapter 2: Ethics and Moral Considerations

Chapter 3: From Caring to Caregiving

Chapter 4: Mixing Critical Qualitative Methods: Autoethnography and Phenomenology

Chapter 5: Safely and Softly Up and Down the Staircase and Axiology

Epilogue

About the Author

Index.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9781975503406

1975503406

OCLC:

1260343149