Piecing lives together: a qualitative arts-based research
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1053
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Event
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Paper
Start Date
January 2019
End Date
January 2019
Abstract
This paper aims to present my experience of piecing lives together, by teaching the teachers to construct qualitative arts-based ‘creative narratives’ (Leitch, 2006, 2008). The teachers who participated in the research were in-service teachers from developing world contexts attending M.Ed. program offered in a private university in a developing world. The paper presents an analytical representation of contextualized images, metaphors and ideas that the teachers used in their collages and their creative narrative to portray their journey of becoming a teacher in the developing world context. The teacher reflections on the process show that it was both a daunting and a very enriching experience and they could use their imagination beyond the written word. As a result of my conducting and teaching qualitative arts-based research I have developed an innovative behavior that is that I developed an ability and enthusiasm to employ new ideas and practices as I perceived them (Rogers, 2003). The findings of the paper reveal that, “While the arts are worthy unto themselves, purely for the sake of artistic expression and cultural enrichment, they are also invaluable to research communities across the disciplines” (Leavy, 2017). It also suggests that to get teachers involved in arts-based qualitative research the teacher educator must think creatively and extend the theoretical boundaries of narratives by including non-verbal arts-based methods.
References
Leith, R. (2006). Limitations of language: developing arts-based creative narrative in stories of teachers’ identities. Teachers and Teaching: theory and practice, 12(5), 549-569.
Leitch, R. (2008). Reinvigorating Conceptions of Teacher Identity: Creating Self-Boxes as Arts-Based Self-Study. LEARNing Landscapes, 2(1), 145-162. Retrieved from http://ojs.learnquebec.ca/index.php/learnland/article/view/281
Leavy, P. (2017). Introduction to arts-based research. Handbook of arts-based research, 3-21.
Rogers, E. M. (2003). Diffusion of innovations (5th ed.). New York, NY: The Free Press.
Keywords
qualitative, arts-based research, teachers, experiences, collage
Piecing lives together: a qualitative arts-based research
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This paper aims to present my experience of piecing lives together, by teaching the teachers to construct qualitative arts-based ‘creative narratives’ (Leitch, 2006, 2008). The teachers who participated in the research were in-service teachers from developing world contexts attending M.Ed. program offered in a private university in a developing world. The paper presents an analytical representation of contextualized images, metaphors and ideas that the teachers used in their collages and their creative narrative to portray their journey of becoming a teacher in the developing world context. The teacher reflections on the process show that it was both a daunting and a very enriching experience and they could use their imagination beyond the written word. As a result of my conducting and teaching qualitative arts-based research I have developed an innovative behavior that is that I developed an ability and enthusiasm to employ new ideas and practices as I perceived them (Rogers, 2003). The findings of the paper reveal that, “While the arts are worthy unto themselves, purely for the sake of artistic expression and cultural enrichment, they are also invaluable to research communities across the disciplines” (Leavy, 2017). It also suggests that to get teachers involved in arts-based qualitative research the teacher educator must think creatively and extend the theoretical boundaries of narratives by including non-verbal arts-based methods.
References
Leith, R. (2006). Limitations of language: developing arts-based creative narrative in stories of teachers’ identities. Teachers and Teaching: theory and practice, 12(5), 549-569.
Leitch, R. (2008). Reinvigorating Conceptions of Teacher Identity: Creating Self-Boxes as Arts-Based Self-Study. LEARNing Landscapes, 2(1), 145-162. Retrieved from http://ojs.learnquebec.ca/index.php/learnland/article/view/281
Leavy, P. (2017). Introduction to arts-based research. Handbook of arts-based research, 3-21.
Rogers, E. M. (2003). Diffusion of innovations (5th ed.). New York, NY: The Free Press.
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