Interweavings, Interfaces and Intersections

Abstract

In this chapter we—Delysia and Joan—set out to demonstrate our learning through studying, thinking deeply about, and questioning our professional practice in dialogue with significant others through co/autoethnographic self-study. Our understanding of co/autoethnographic self-study is that it is both collaborative (Chang, 2012; Coia & Taylor, 2009) and relational (Simon, 2013). Simon (2013, p. 1) emphasised that relational ethnography is a “form of enquiry which emphasises the reflexive dialogical aspects of research relationships,” which provides opportunities for the “description of reflexive inner dialogues to readers and participants in research relationships” so that the “voices of inner dialogue, the voices of outer dialogue—and between the two increase the opportunities for transparent communication and collaboration in these relationships.”