Exploring duoethnography in graduate research courses

Abstract

In this chapter we explore the potential of duoethnography as a research methodology, attending to its dialogic and pedagogic features suitable for graduate research courses. Reflecting on our experiences with the approach, the invited co-authors-a professor and his current or former doctoral and graduate students-share insights on duoethnography as particularly salient in teaching collaborative and participatory research methods at graduate and doctoral levels. Through illustrations, we describe this dialogic approach as encouraging self-reflection, and opening up a critical examination of the beliefs and values underlying their practice. Here, we present duoethnography as a democratizing way of resisting some of the dehumanizing neoliberal features of contemporary universities, with encouragement for more scholars to engage and extend duoethnography with students in their university classes.