I would agree with you Alison - and refine it a bit more, to distinguish
between authobiographical and autoethnographic approaches. The latter is
a research method, of course, rather than a form of assessment but it is
possible, as I do on one of the MA modules I teach, to introduce
students to autoethnography and then ask them to write an
autoethnographic piece for assessment. Rebecca
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Sent: 24 March 2009 19:37
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Subject: Re: reflexive v reflective
I'm sorry to harp on like a terrier but this sounds like an
auto/biographical approach wherein one write oneself into the research.
And what are we all doing writing this stuff 'out of hours'?
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Subject: reflexive v reflective
As others have suggested earlier, the two terms are used interchangeably
and there is little precise distinction between them. I believe the term
'reflexive' arises from the reflexive pronoun 'self' as in 'myself'. It
seems likely that a reflexive approach is one of intense inward scrutiny
of the self whereas the reflective approach involves an examination of
the wider situation and the actors within it, one of whom may be the
self. Norma Pritchett Head of Professional and Academic Development
University of Bedfordshire
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