La Multi-metodología Autobiográfica Extendida (MAE): una estrategia cualitativa para estudiar la identidad, los fondos de conocimiento y las formas de vida

Abstract

The multi-method autobiographical approach is a qualitative strategy designed to study identities as a narrative construction based on mixing linguistic and visual techniques. This article reviews an extended version of this approach. The multi-method autobiographical extended approach to study identities, funds of knowledge and forms of life include in-depth interviews (life story interview, funds of knowledge interview, Durand’s interview), the selfportrait revised technique (self-portrait, self-definition, self-concept task), strategies to detect the artifacts, routines and forms of life (one-week diary, artifacts assessment, routines through pictures, educational routines through pictures), and “psychological or psychogeographical maps” (cronogram, genogram, ecomap, geomap, and relational map). Examples of these qualitative strategies are drawn in order to illustrate how to study the narrative construction of identity, family’s funds of knowledge and people forms of life. It concludes by recommending the triangulation of qualitative strategies based on language, for example indepth interviews, and qualitative strategies based on visual procedures, for example