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An auto-ethnography describes one life to illustrate a way of life, by connecting personal and cultural worlds (Ellis & Bochner, 2000). The larger autoethnographic inquiry into everyday professional practice that I conducted for my PhD (Denshire, 2009)1 was about re-reading and re-writing practice in order to reinscribe the things that are “written out” of public accounts of practice, especially when a profession becomes a scholarly discipline. The challenge then was to foreground, not just the inconsequential ordinary, but the “writing out” that happens when you move from practice itself to representation of that practice within disciplinary, and especially scientific regimes.
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Denshire, S. (2011). Re-Inscribing Gender into the Heritage of ot in Australia. In: Higgs, J., Titchen, A., Horsfall, D., Bridges, D. (eds) Creative Spaces for Qualitative Researching. Practice, Education, Work and Society, vol 5. SensePublishers. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6091-761-5_11
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