Document Type

Book Chapter

Publication Date

2016

Publication Title

Interdisciplinary Reflective Practice through Duoethnography: Examples for Educators

DOI

http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-51739-5

Abstract

In the aftermath and mop-up following a successful dissertation defense, an unintended and unexpected data source remained unexplored and unanalyzed: 32 audio-recorded discussions and work sessions documenting the processes, approaches, and decisions made by a dissertation director and his doctoral candidate. What might those conversations reveal about the dissertation relationship? Taking a page from Raymond Carver’s short story, “What We Talk about When We Talk about Love,” we wondered what we might have been talking about when we were talking about dissertation writing. Inspired and shaped by Norris, Sawyer, and Lund’s (2012. Duoethnography: Dialogic methods for social, health, and educational research. Walnut Creek, CA: Left Coast Press.) duoethnographic methods, this study provides opportunity for us to not just look back on the journey, but pushes us into the messiness of “recalling and reconceptualizing” (p. 10). As we each “become the foil for the Other, challenging the Other to reflect on their own life in a deeper, more relational, and authentic manner” (Norris et al., 2012, p. 10) we also interrogate and trouble our own simplistic categories of analysis.

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This is a post-peer-review, pre-copyedit version of an article published in Interdisciplinary Reflective Practice through Duoethnography. The definitive publisher-authenticated version:

Adams, S.R. and Helfenbein, R.J. (2016). What we talk about when we talk about love: A duoethnographic exploration of the dissertation relationship. in J. Norris and R. Sawyers, (Eds.) Interdisciplinary reflective practice through duoethnography: Examples for educators. Palgrave McMillan.

is available online at: DOI: 10.1057/978-1-137-51739-5.

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