Knowing yourself to educate. Performative autoethnography as a self-reflexive method for research and education

GRIT KIRSTIN KOELTZSCH

Madrid

Conferencia; CIVAE International and Virtual Conference on Arts in Education; 2021

In this paper, the performance titled: Pachamama: Corporealities of an Andean-peasant woman is discussed involving creative processes to reveal research results, and emphasizing the body as an interface between the social environment, society and scholarly work. In this case, experimentation beyond textuality is achieved through systematic introspection, which led to a visual-performative result used for a higher-education class of American History in Argentina. I argue that autoethnography makes it possible to locate the researchers history and culture in relation to others, but it also reflects critically on other analytical categories, such as work and gender, in this case.