ABSTRACT
Meta-autoethnographies consist primarily of current reflections, narrative vignettes, story interludes, and analyses in numerous forms: dialogue with friends and family, reactions from critics, scenic short stories, and portrayals of classrooms. Each meta-autoethnography reflects back on the original representation and updates an interpretation and/or story. Meta-autoethnographic reflections that complexify or raise questions about events and issues in the original or follow-up stories or analyses often occur as short vignettes or story interludes. Relational ethics requires us as researchers to act from our hearts and minds, to acknowledge our interpersonal bonds to others, and to initiate and maintain conversations. The concept of relational ethics is closely related to an ethics of care, communication ethics, feminist and feminist communitarian ethics.
