Autoethnography and Other Self-Inquiry Methods for Practice-Based Doctoral Research

2021 ◽

pp. 87-107

Author(s):

Crystal Lewis ◽

Robin Throne

Keyword(s):

Lived Experience ◽

Research Methods ◽

Doctoral Program ◽

Research Support ◽

Doctoral Research ◽

Current Trends ◽

New Knowledge ◽

The Individual

For some doctoral practitioner-researchers, the methods used within autoethnography and other self-inquiry-based research methods are appropriate for a practitioner dissertation as the phenomenon of inquiry is a central human, intrinsic, and experiential self-focused construct. The tenets of autoethnography and other self-as-subject research support the view that new knowledge can be discoverable from within the individual lived experience, and this chapter presents current trends and scholarship for the use of autoethnography and other self-inquiry research methods for practice-based doctoral research. The chapter also presents one case from a recent doctoral autoethnographer to illustrate the experience of a practice-based autoethnographic dissertation study within a practitioner doctoral program.

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Capital versus Revenue: Receipts, Expenditures, Profits and Losses in Accounting and Taxation

NCC Journal ◽

10.3126/nccj.v3i1.20249 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 3 (1) ◽

pp. 71-81

Author(s):

Jit Bahadur K.C.

Keyword(s):

Research Methods ◽

Income Tax ◽

Qualitative Approach ◽

Theory And Practice ◽

Tax Revenue ◽

Tax Law ◽

Sources Of Information ◽

Descriptive Research ◽

New Knowledge ◽

The Individual

Objective – This article aims to enlighten the theory of capital and revenue nature receipt and expenditure in accounting and taxation.Methodology/design/approach – Methodologically, this article adopts the descriptive research methods and qualitative approach based on the primary, secondary, and tertiary sources of information from Acts/laws, journals, reports, books, dictionary and encyclopaedia.Finding and conclusion – The study found that the income tax Act of Nepal does not define the terms capital and revenue receipt and expenditure clearly, but clarifies provisions of non-business taxation assets of the individual persons and net gains from business assets or liabilities for the entity and gains from depreciable assets for both persons. Thus, we argue that it should define to avoid vagueness in the law. A simple tax law increases both tax revenue and evasion while vague decreases both.Originality/value – This paper explicitly presents the state of capital and revenue receipt and expenditure in theory and practice. Thus, this paper furnishes facts about the stated subject and adds a new knowledge to the existing literature.NCC JournalVol. 3, No. 1, 2018, Page: 71-81

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Self-as-Subject for Doctoral Research

Autoethnography and Heuristic Inquiry for Doctoral-Level Researchers - Advances in Higher Education and Professional Development ◽

10.4018/978-1-5225-9365-2.ch001 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 1-25

Keyword(s):

The Self ◽

Heuristic Inquiry ◽

Doctoral Level ◽

Doctoral Research ◽

New Knowledge ◽

Self Knowledge ◽

Institutional Aspects ◽

The Individual ◽

Internal Experience ◽

Selection Of

This chapter presents reflections on the use of self-as-subject research within doctoral education as a pathway to explore meaning of study phenomena to uncover new knowledge from the individual of the self. Knowledge is contextual and discoverable from within this rich internal experience of the researcher-participant and extant and contemporary perspectives are presented to illustrate the importance and appropriateness of the selection of self-as-subject research methods including autoethnography and heuristic inquiry for doctoral-level research. The importance of the relational aspects of the doctoral researcher and doctoral research supervisor is briefly considered as well as contextual and institutional aspects necessary to inform doctoral researchers who may choose these methods of inquiry.

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Puzzles, Time, and Ethnographic Sensibilities: Research Methods after the Arab Spring

Middle East Law and Governance ◽

10.1163/18763375-00701002 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 7 (1) ◽

pp. 132-140

Author(s):

Wendy Pearlman

Keyword(s):

Lived Experience ◽

Research Methods ◽

Arab Spring ◽

Publishing World ◽

Fast Pace ◽

Nuanced Understanding ◽

The Individual ◽

The Arab Spring ◽

Experience Of Change ◽

Scholarly Inquiry

Parallel transformations in both the post-Arab spring Middle East and the publishing world present tests for scholars of the region. This essay suggests three strategies for reframing challenges as opportunities and reconceptualizing the seeming liabilities of academic work as resources. First, I propose that the surprising character of recent upheavals ought not demoralize scholarly inquiry but rather invigorate it by showcasing the kinds of difficult puzzles that propel innovation in research and theory-building. Second, I suggest that the fast pace of publishing over the Internet should renew our appreciation for its antithesis: the unique benefits of exploring and developing ideas slowly over time. Third, I argue that these two challenges-turned-opportunities come together to highlight the value of research methods with an ethnographic sensibility. These approaches can help us ground theory in a more nuanced understanding of the individual and the lived experience of change.

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Researcher Positionality

Autoethnography and Heuristic Inquiry for Doctoral-Level Researchers - Advances in Higher Education and Professional Development ◽

10.4018/978-1-5225-9365-2.ch002 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 26-47

Keyword(s):

Lived Experience ◽

Creative Thinking ◽

Ways Of Knowing ◽

Heuristic Inquiry ◽

Cultural Experience ◽

Arts Based Research ◽

Doctoral Level ◽

Doctoral Research ◽

Creative Research ◽

The Individual

This chapter presents researcher positionality within the context of two systematic methods of inquiry for the examination of self-as-subject: autoethnography and heuristic inquiry for doctoral-level research. These ways of knowing and understanding the lived experience of the self are meant to further inform not only the individual experience, but the collective or cultural experience at large. The articulation of researcher positionality is an essential precursor to doctoral inquiry, the supervision of which often requires doctoral research supervisor agency to oversee the heuristic introspection. While the doctoral scholar may not initially choose the approach as creative research, outcomes of the research may result in enhanced creative thinking and arts-based research products as representations of findings.

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Self-as-Subject for Doctoral Research

10.4018/978-1-6684-3881-7.ch008 ◽

2022 ◽

pp. 136-153

Author(s):

Robin Throne

Keyword(s):

The Self ◽

Heuristic Inquiry ◽

Doctoral Level ◽

Doctoral Research ◽

New Knowledge ◽

Self Knowledge ◽

Institutional Aspects ◽

The Individual ◽

Internal Experience ◽

Selection Of

This chapter presents reflections on the use of self-as-subject research within doctoral education as a pathway to explore meaning of study phenomena to uncover new knowledge from the individual of the self. Knowledge is contextual and discoverable from within this rich internal experience of the researcher-participant and extant and contemporary perspectives are presented to illustrate the importance and appropriateness of the selection of self-as-subject research methods including autoethnography and heuristic inquiry for doctoral-level research. The importance of the relational aspects of the doctoral researcher and doctoral research supervisor is briefly considered as well as contextual and institutional aspects necessary to inform doctoral researchers who may choose these methods of inquiry.

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Drowning in negativism, self-hate, doubt, madness: Linguistic insights into Sylvia Plath’s experience of depression

Communication & Medicine ◽

10.1558/cam.v11i1.18478 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 11 (1) ◽

pp. 41-54 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Zsófia Demjén

Keyword(s):

Lived Experience ◽

Medical Humanities ◽

Sylvia Plath ◽

Individual Experience ◽

Qualitative And Quantitative ◽

The World ◽

The Individual ◽

Linguistic Methods ◽

Linguistic Approach

This paper demonstrates how a range of linguistic methods can be harnessed in pursuit of a deeper understanding of the ‘lived experience’ of psychological disorders. It argues that such methods should be applied more in medical contexts, especially in medical humanities. Key extracts from The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath are examined, as a case study of the experience of depression. Combinations of qualitative and quantitative linguistic methods, and inter- and intra-textual comparisons are used to consider distinctive patterns in the use of metaphor, personal pronouns and (the semantics of) verbs, as well as other relevant aspects of language. Qualitative techniques provide in-depth insights, while quantitative corpus methods make the analyses more robust and ensure the breadth necessary to gain insights into the individual experience. Depression emerges as a highly complex and sometimes potentially contradictory experience for Plath, involving both a sense of apathy and inner turmoil. It involves a sense of a split self, trapped in a state that one cannot overcome, and intense self-focus, a turning in on oneself and a view of the world that is both more negative and more polarized than the norm. It is argued that a linguistic approach is useful beyond this specific case.

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Against evidence-based oppression: Marginalized youth and the politics of risk-based assessment and intervention

Theoretical Criminology ◽

10.1177/1362480616645172 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 21 (2) ◽

pp. 151-167 ◽

Cited By ~ 32

Author(s):

Tim Goddard ◽

Randolph R Myers

Keyword(s):

Lived Experience ◽

Evidence Based ◽

Marginalized Youth ◽

Youth Justice ◽

Policy And Practice ◽

Individual Level ◽

Needs Assessments ◽

Actuarial Risk ◽

The Individual ◽

Causes Of Crime

Actuarial risk/needs assessments exert a formidable influence over the policy and practice of youth offender intervention. Risk-prediction instruments and the programming they inspire are thought not only to link scholarship to practice, but are deemed evidence-based. However, risk-based assessments and programs display a number of troubling characteristics: they reduce the lived experience of racialized inequality into an elevated risk score; they prioritize a very limited set of hyper-individualistic interventions, at the expense of others; and they privilege narrow individual-level outcomes as proof of overall success. As currently practiced, actuarial youth justice replicates earlier interventions that ask young people to navigate structural causes of crime at the individual level, while laundering various racialized inequalities at the root of violence and criminalization. This iteration of actuarial youth justice is not inevitable, and we discuss alternatives to actuarial youth justice as currently practiced.

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Signaling Effects: Increased Content Retention and New Answers—Part II

Journal of Technical Writing and Communication ◽

10.2190/493q-703b-jbvd-e0t9 ◽

1989 ◽

Vol 19 (4) ◽

pp. 395-415 ◽

Cited By ~ 24

Author(s):

Jan H. Spyridakis

Keyword(s):

Research Methods ◽

Expository Text ◽

Combined Effects ◽

Good Readers ◽

Logical Connectives ◽

Content Retention ◽

The Individual

This study investigated the role of signaling in helping good readers comprehend expository text. As the existing literature on signaling, reviewed in the last issue of this Journal, pointed to deficiencies in previous studies' methodologies, one goal of this study was to refine prose research methods. Two passages were designed in one of eight signaled versions each. The design was constructed to assess the individual and combined effects of headings, previews, and logical connectives. The study also assessed the effect of passage length, familiarity, and difficulty. The results showed that signals do improve a reader's comprehension, particularly comprehension two weeks after the reading of a passage and comprehension of superordinate and superordinate inferential information. This study supports the hypothesis that signals can influence retention of text-based information, particularly with long, unfamiliar, or difficult passages.

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The Tegument and Associated Structures of Fasciola Hepatica

Journal of Cell Science ◽

10.1242/jcs.s3-104.68.505 ◽

1963 ◽

Vol s3-104 (68) ◽

pp. 505-512

Author(s):

L. T. THREADGOLD

Keyword(s):

Electron Microscopy ◽

Surface Layer ◽

Light Microscopy ◽

Fasciola Hepatica ◽

Golgi Bodies ◽

New Knowledge ◽

Pinocytotic Vesicles ◽

The Individual ◽

And Function ◽

Internal Level

The cuticle of light microscopy is shown by electron microscopy to be a surface layer of protoplasm which is an extension of areas of nucleated protoplasm lying deep in the parenchyma. The cuticle therefore exists at two levels. The external level is syncytial, consisting of plateaux separated by branching valleys. This level contains apical pinocytotic vesicles, numerous mitochondria, endoplasmic membranes, large basal and other vacuoles, and dense spines. Tube-like evaginations from the base of the external level connect it to the individual areas of flask-shaped protoplasm which compose the internal level. Each of these areas of protoplasm contains a nucleus, great numbers of mitochondria, some vacuoles and diffuse inclusions, and the Golgi bodies. The histochemistry and function of the cuticle is discussed in the light of this new knowledge of cuticular ultrastructure, and a comparison is made between the cuticle of Cestoda and Trematoda.

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