Confessing Takes Courage

Authors

  • Karen V. Lee University of British Columbia

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.17169/fqs-8.1.212

Keywords:

autoethnography, confessions, disclosure, secrecy

Abstract

The author writes an autoethnography reflecting on the inherent complications of confessions. She reveals the irony of living in both a culture of disclosure and a culture of secrecy. Her assumptions of the perils and pitfalls of rendering intimate thoughts shift as she reflects upon her own confessions. The impact and insight from her writings become revolutionary as she moves inward and outward through interrogations of personal disclosure. In the end, autoethnography helps her gain a deeper understanding about the personal and cultural influences shaping her desire to confess. URN: urn:nbn:de:0114-fqs070163

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Author Biography

Karen V. Lee, University of British Columbia

Karen V. LEE is a Faculty Advisor and co-founder of the Teaching Initiative for Music Educators cohort (TIME), at the Faculty of Education, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B. C. Her research interests include issues of musician identity, teacher identity, music education, teacher education, and arts-based approaches to qualitative research. Her doctoral dissertation, a book of short stories titled Riffs of Change: Musicians Becoming Music Educators, was about musicians becoming music educators in a classroom context. She is a musician, writer, music educator, and researcher. Currently, she teaches undergraduate and graduate students at the university.

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Published

2007-01-31

How to Cite

Lee, K. V. (2007). Confessing Takes Courage. Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung Forum: Qualitative Social Research, 8(1). https://doi.org/10.17169/fqs-8.1.212

Issue

Vol. 8 No. 1 (2007): Time and Discourse

Section

Single Contributions

License

Copyright (c) 2007 Karen V. Lee

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