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	อัตชีวประวัติชาติพันธุ์วรรณนา	การวิจัยเชิงปฏิบัติการ
สาขาวิชา	เชิงคุณภาพ	การวิจัยเชิงคุณภาพ
ตระกูล	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
ปีกำเนิด	Late 20th century (term coined 1979; method consolidated 1990s–2000s)	1946
ผู้ริเริ่ม	Carolyn Ellis, Arthur Bochner, Norman Denzin (prominent theorists); David Hayano coined the term in 1979	Kurt Lewin; expanded by Kemmis, McTaggart, Reason & Bradbury
ประเภท	Qualitative research method	Method
แหล่งต้นตำรับ	Ellis, C. (2004). The Ethnographic I: A Methodological Novel about Autoethnography. AltaMira Press. ISBN: 978-0759100947	Lewin, K. (1946). Action research and minority problems. Journal of Social Issues, 2(4), 34–46.
ชื่อเรียกอื่น	auto-ethnography, AE, personal narrative research, self-ethnography	Participatory Action Research, PAR, Collaborative Inquiry
ที่เกี่ยวข้อง	6	1
สรุป	Autoethnography is a qualitative research method in which the researcher uses systematic self-reflection and personal narrative to examine their own experiences within a cultural, social, or organizational context. By treating the self as both subject and instrument, autoethnography connects individual lived experience to broader cultural patterns, making personal stories analytically and socially significant. It bridges autobiography and ethnography, producing accounts that are simultaneously evocative and scholarly.	Action research is a collaborative research methodology in which researchers work with practitioners and community members to investigate a problem, implement change, and evaluate outcomes, cycling through reflection, action, and learning. Developed by Kurt Lewin (1946), action research bridges research and practice, aiming simultaneously to produce knowledge and practical improvement.