Mc² = E Learning Reflections

I don't know how often I've tried drafting and redrafting different versions of this post because, I try to use my blog as a space where I can collide different thoughts, ideas and experiences in an effort to find out something new.  In doing so I find myself asking the question: "How authentic is this?  Are you being honest with yourself?  Are you being honest with your readers?  So, I find myself adopting different voices. ( " Speak up, make your voice heard " by  HowardLake  is licensed under  CC BY-SA 2.0 .) Sometimes I find myself using the objective, scientific voice.  Like the kind you might find in Critical Incident Analysis (Tripp, 1993 as cited by Mohammed, 2016) where you step out of yourself and out of the situation and look at it from an observers standpoint and by relating the context of the situation to literature and knowledge you arrive at some transformational realisation (Szenes et al., 2015).   Other times I try to ve...

  The last few weeks have been challenging.  I didn't really expect to begin my experience as a researcher by examining my own personal values and beliefs so closely.  Don't get me wrong, I'm learning a lot.  But putting myself under a microscope and examining my own scholarship practice in this way has been something of an eye opener, particularly in coming to the realisation that my work, my reading, my blogging and the narrative I've chosen so far may come to be viewed by the academic community as autoethnography. ( " BLOG IDEAS " by  owenwbrown  is licensed under  CC BY 2.0 .) Until very recently I was unaware of the term and what it meant - thanks Vicky!  After having read some autoethnographic case studies I've come to realise that might be true.  I  may be something of a budding autoethnographer.  But I'm also learning that this can both be a badge of honour and something of an accusation at the same time. I started the week ...