ABSTRACT
Duoethnography (Norris, 2008; Norris and Sawyer, 2004; Sawyer and Norris, 2009) is a collaborative research methodology in which two or more researchers of difference juxtapose their life histories to provide multiple understandings of the world. Rather than uncovering the meanings that people give to their lived experiences, duoethnography embraces the belief that meanings can be and often are transformed through the research act. Readers of duoethnographers are furthermore recognized as active meaning makers (Rosenblatt, 1978) within the research text. Duoethnographies, then, are fluid texts where readers witness researchers in the act of narrative exposure and reconceptualization (Pinar, 1975b) as they interrogate and reinscribe their previously held beliefs. Duoethnographers enter the research act with multiple and often interconnected intentions. One is to learn about oneself from the “Other” (Barber, 1989). Another intention is to explore and articulate personal and collective narratives of resistance in relation to dominant discourses and metanarratives. A third is to use one’s self as a site for inquiry into sociocultural socialization and inscription. In these and other cases, duoethnographers articulate their emergent thinking and changes in perception to their readers in the form of dialogic storytelling (Reason and Hawkins, 1988).
