Abstract
A curious piece of ironic, partially-dramatised auto/ethnography, this paper reflects an ongoing attempt to explore the vapid certainties of my own faith, some of the brittle discomforts of contemporary schooling, and the possibilities of a social science research methodology which can artfully assemble on the same stage belief, empirics and critique. Though actually too didactic to be art – and at the same time too casual to be social science – the paper supposes a set of incidents, based remotely on ‘actual’ events, which bring into collision some crises of faith, of schooling and of research methodology. I imagine that there is also some rather terrible humour to the piece
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 347-356 |
Number of pages | 9 |
Journal | Ethnography and Education |
Volume | 4 |
Issue number | 3 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 5 Nov 2009 |
Keywords
- auto/ethnography
- crises of schooling
- crises of methodology
- faith