Layering Sel(f)ves: Finding Acceptance, Community and Praxis through Collage

Authors

Sarah K. MacKenzie, Bucknell UniversityFollow
Mary M. Wolf, Daeman CollegeFollow

Abstract

There are multiple aspects that shape one’s experience as a student teacher; however often as teacher educators, we focus on the intellectual rather than the emotional nature of the experience. Within this a/r/tographical inquiry, we render a story of what can happen when teacher educators intentionally engage the multidimensional nature of the student teaching experience through the integration of arts-informed epistemologies within the context of the student teaching seminar. Student teachers entered into a dialogic space of reflexivity and praxis where they discovered that their experiences mattered and did not occur in isolation. This project has implications for considering ways to help student teachers and teacher educators bridge the gaps between the personal, social, artistic, and academic that is teaching.

Keywords

Student Teaching, A/r/tography, Collage, Arts-Integration, Qualitative Research

Publication Date

4-16-2012

Creative Commons License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 4.0 International License.

DOI

10.46743/2160-3715/2012.1782

Recommended APA Citation

MacKenzie, S. K., & Wolf, M. M. (2012). Layering Sel(f)ves: Finding Acceptance, Community and Praxis through Collage. The Qualitative Report, 17(16), 1-21. https://doi.org/10.46743/2160-3715/2012.1782