Critical Personal Narrative and Autoethnography in Education: Reflections on a Genre

Abstract

As critical educators, we are frequently searching for provocative texts to inform our scholarship and teaching, as well as to strengthen the connections we make between theory and praxis. Our research has used narrative inquiry, collaborative ethnography, and applied semiotics. Between us, we share an identity and scholarship in critical and feminist curriculum theory. Our work interrogates risk/ deficit images of children, youth, and families, and we seek to decolonize researcher relationships with participants. We both struggle to create substantial intersections between