Duoethnography on Friendship

Abstract

In this paper the authors intersect the methodology of duoethnography with the concept of “friendship,” using the latter as both topic to be examined and process by which the authors navigate the inquiry itself. The frame used to analyze this duoethnographic journey of friendship includes William Doll's (1993) four R's of curriculum: recursion, relations, richness, and rigor. The authors consider through this duoethnographic/dialogic process not only the patterns of relationships that shape the process of research but how “research” shapes the patterns of the friendship explored here, which creates a reexamination of the concept of friendship itself. The authors conclude that processes and concepts of friendship parallel, influence, and disrupt processes and concepts of inquiry such as “reliability,” “trustworthiness,” and “relationships.”