Methoden vergleichen

	Visuelle Evozierungsautoethnografie	Reflexive Thematic Analysis
Fachgebiet	Qualitativ	Qualitativ
Familie	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Entstehungsjahr	2000s–2010s	2006 (seminal paper); explicitly named 'reflexive' from ~2019
Urheber	Synthesised from Douglas Harper (photo elicitation, 2002) and Heewon Chang (autoethnography as method, 2008); popularised in education and health humanities research in the 2010s	Virginia Braun & Victoria Clarke
Typ	Qualitative self-study design	Qualitative research method
Wegweisende Quelle	Chang, H. (2008). Autoethnography as Method. Left Coast Press. ISBN: 978-1598741230	Braun, V., & Clarke, V. (2006). Using thematic analysis in psychology. Qualitative Research in Psychology, 3(2), 77–101.
Aliasnamen	VEA, photo-elicitation autoethnography, visual autoethnography, image-elicited autoethnography	RTA, reflexive TA, Braun and Clarke thematic analysis, qualitative thematic analysis
Verwandt	3	6
Zusammenfassung	Visual elicitation autoethnography (VEA) is a qualitative self-study method that combines the personal narrative orientation of autoethnography with the stimulus power of visual artefacts — photographs, drawings, or found images — to prompt and deepen autobiographical reflection. The researcher produces or selects images from their own life, then uses those images as elicitation tools to generate rich written or spoken narratives about a cultural phenomenon they have lived through, positioning the self as both researcher and research subject.	Reflexive Thematic Analysis (RTA) is a widely used qualitative method for identifying, analysing, and interpreting patterns of shared meaning — called themes — across a dataset. Developed by Virginia Braun and Victoria Clarke, it is theoretically flexible, works across epistemological positions, and foregrounds the researcher's active, interpretive role rather than treating themes as features that simply emerge from data. It differs from older 'codebook' approaches by treating the analyst's subjectivity as a resource rather than a source of bias to be suppressed.