Transformative Learning: Autoethnographies of Qualitative Research

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This book contains a series of autoethnographies written by participants of a program on qualitative methods. It offers the stories of students-turned-professors and what they learned via autoethnographic writing as part of the course. The chapters provide insight into the application of a range of qualitative research techniques and, unlike typical works on qualitative methods, in a nonprescriptive method that reflects a personal learning process.   This book will be of interest to students and academics engaged in qualitative research, as well as scholars of transformative learning, teaching pedagogy and broader educational studies. Prologue: Heading for a Strange Shore Acknowledgments About the Book Contents Notes on Contributors List of Figures 1: Transformative Learning What Is Qcamp? Transformative Learning Autoethnographic Chapter Format References Part I: Heuristics 2: Mining for Outliers in Qualitative Research to Develop Interviewing Strategies References 3: Researching the Market Violence of Counterfeit Medicines: Insights from Qualitative Camp An Odyssey within an Odyssey The Research Journeys Will a Hypothetic-Deductive Approach be Useful Here? Tricks of the Trade: Delving Into Qualitative Research Methods at the Qcamp Chasing Data Across Continents The Final Grand Piece The Rewards of Qcamp References 4: Studying Processes in Organizations Lessons Learned from Limbo Situations Introduction “Theory”: The Variance View and the Process View in Research Lessons at Qualitative Camp Lesson 1 Lesson 2 Lesson 3 What Is Good, and What Is Bad (Research)? Experience 1: This Is Good Work! Have you Developed any Taxonomies? Experience 2: “I Don’t Like Grounded Theory, but Don’t Mind Me” Experience 3: “Your Text Is Hard to Read, Please Add the Events More Chronologically” Discussion and Reflections Conclusion References Part II: Confessional 5: Self-Observation of Sublime Experience The Ferry Avoiding Losses The Patio Deck Talking Shop The Plunge The Knife Lessons Learned References 6: Harvesting Foreign Fields, the Researcher as a Solitary Reaper Away from Home References 7: Contrasting Norwegian and American Prison Systems: Becoming (Un)broken Part III: Peer Learning 8: Observing Cultural Differences: Dismantling Ethnocentrism in a Multicultural Environment References 9: What’s going on here, or Welcome on board of No Escape References 10: How Natural Is “Natural” in Field Research? “Naturally” Occurring Data Perceived as What? The Gift “Naturally Occurring” Data Versus Data Perceived as (Results of) Actions and Choices “Otherwise Occurring Data” Encountering the Field Bringing on the Gift References Part IV: Sensemaking 11: Moving Qualitative Data from Little Pieces of Colored Glass to an Elegant Stained-Glass Window A Summary of the Article The Challenges I Faced while Writing the Article An Insight from Q-Camp 2009 References 12: Walking out of the Shadow Prior to the Qualitative Camp: Walking into the Shadow May 2016, the Qualitative Camp: Moments of Enlightenment in the Shadow The Summer and Autumn of 2016: Facing off inside the Shadow The Three Years Post the Qualitative Camp: Walking out of the Shadow Stage beyond the Dissertation Defense: Looking Back at the Shadow References 13: Finding the Human Story in a Cultural of Secrecy 14: Observational Methodology and Ecological Economics Introduction Preparing for Qualitative Camp: “Practicing” the Research Theme Interlude 1: At Qualitative Camp Interlude 2: Understanding my Own Pre-Understanding and Role as Researcher Testing some Principles in Practice and Reflecting on What it Could Mean From Pre-Understanding to Understanding and New Pre-Understanding. Gathering and Interpreting Data Finding a Way: Developing a Model and Gathering Data Interpreting A Final Reflection References Part V: Epilogue 15: A Grounded Theory of Qcamp The Grounded Theory Categories The Axial Codes as the Case for Transformation Character Predicament Resolution Summary and Conclusions References Index