“Becoming” Myself as a Researcher: Incorporating Autoethnography as a Research Methodology in Art Education

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

Autoethnography is a qualitative research methodology through which the researcherinvestigates a group or research setting by exploring her or his own individualexperiences, thus revealing the researcher in the settings. In this study, I will explore myown identities as a Korean international female graduate student and researcher regardingthe issue of choosing a research methodology for my doctoral dissertation. In doing so, Iwill highlight what autoethnography, as a research methodology, can contribute to thefield of art education. I resisted using autoethnography when I began my dissertation butlater incorporated it as my methodology because I learned the significance of revealingmy own identities in the process conducting research. Autoethnographic text-writingallowed me the conceptual space to think about myself and reflect on the personal, social,and cultural dimensions of my experiences. In Deleuze and Guattari’s words, becomingmyself as a Korean international female graduate student and researcher in a researchsetting implies ‘becoming-woman’ and ‘becoming-minoritarian,’ which are different frombeing identified as a woman and minority. I believe revealing the identities of aresearcher in this way of ‘becomings’ through autoethnography can build self-reflectivityand self-awareness in a researcher, thereby helping a researcher notice the undercurrent,which is usually hidden in research settings. These kinds of research findings from theundercurrent would become a driving force to disturb the majority in a research setting.

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