"Trína Chéile": Reflections on Journaling in the Border Country of Doctoral Research

Autor/in	McCormack, David
Titel	"Trína Chéile": Reflections on Journaling in the Border Country of Doctoral Research
Quelle	In: Studies in the Education of Adults, 46 (2014) 2, S.163-176 (14 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0266-0830
Schlagwörter	Ethnography; Doctoral Programs; Adult Learning; Doctoral Dissertations; Adult Education; Intellectual Disciplines; Writing Processes; Journal Writing; Research; Cognitive Processes; Epistemology; Reflection + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ethnografie; Doktorandenprogramm; Adulte education; Adult training; Erwachsenenbildung; Doctoral dissertation; Doctoral thesis; Doctoral theses; Dissertationsschrift; Adult; Adults; Education; Adult basic education; Geisteswissenschaften; Zeitschriftenaufsatz; Forschung; Cognitive process; Kognitiver Prozess; Erkenntnistheorie
Abstract	In this paper I reflect autoethnographically on my experiences of writing as part of a professional doctorate. I draw on the research journals that I kept during a particularly challenging time in the dissertation process and in particular on the method of journal writing that I used to help me through this time. This storied account offers an insight into the experience of being "trína chéile", or all over the place, in the border country of adult learning. The discovery of negative capability and metaphoric sensibility emerge as significant supports on the journey. Encountering the work of Cixous during the dissertation and the work of Milner after its completion were key aspects of the thinking process. In this way writing is seen as a method of self-support in the border country of dissertation writing, one that supports emergent learning and that acts as an epistemological resource in using writing processes that are congruent with the discipline of adult education. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10