{"title":"The Teacher Monologues: An A/r/tographical Exploration","authors":"Mindy R. Carter","doi":"10.3316/CAR0301042","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3316/CAR0301042","url":null,"abstract":"Arts-based research is increasingly seen not only as a plausible way for approaching one's research and work, but as an essential one. It provides a way for the researcher to connect with their intended audiences, other interested researchers and their own 'multiple selves'. A/r/tographical inquiry and research-based theatre are two of the specific methodologies within arts-based research that are expanding the borders of what is considered to be educational research. These forms of inquiry help one to develop imaginative, creative and emotional ways of approaching the curriculum. This article began by attempting to explore how the creation (writing, editing and compiling) of 'The Teacher Monologues' as an example of a reflective practice could be articulated as theatre-based research and as a/r/tographical inquiry. It attempts to actively engage with Philip Taylor's (1996) suggestion to push drama education beyond the traditional scientific criteria for research in order to explore metaphysical and theological possibilities. In this article this is considered by exploring the nous and esprit in relation to a/r/tographical inquiry. As an entry point into this theoretical investigation, 'The Teacher Monologues', a series of monologues that have been written by the author and other teachers (on the topic of their teaching practices and experiences), were written, performed and then engaged with. Very few instructions were provided for what was/was not acceptable as content for these monologues. Rather, the freedom to explore any topic that arose from one's teaching practice (K-12, university, art teacher etc.) was deemed appropriate. Monologue writing offers the teaching practitioner a way to engage in a reflective, narrative autobiographical practice for a variety of personal and professional reasons. Privileging the 'messiness', 'fun' and 'unexpected' inherent when one combines art, research and writing was not only part of the process involved in the writing of this piece but is the focus of the article.","PeriodicalId":177585,"journal":{"name":"Creative Approaches To Research","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125277436","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Doubt's Architecture: Reflections on a Research Project Using Photographic Juxtaposition","authors":"Janet G. Sayers, R. Bathurst, Henry Symonds","doi":"10.3316/CAR0201058","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3316/CAR0201058","url":null,"abstract":"In this article we present and discuss a novel approach to research using photographic juxtaposition. This method uses dual images of subjects (at work and at home), and subject involvement in the process of self-presentation, to create a 'doubting frame' for research. We discuss the issue of doubt in research and suggest researchers take doubt more seriously, and deliberately construct research to allow and encourage re-description by research's final arbiters - its readers and its subjects. We illustrate our argument with some photographic sets, and describe the project, which was a collaborative effort between management researchers and an artist. We show how the simple architecture (or research design) of this project was built from doubt and encourages doubt, and we discuss why this should be viewed as a positive rather than a negative feature of research.","PeriodicalId":177585,"journal":{"name":"Creative Approaches To Research","volume":"59 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125729254","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Texts in Parallel: Art Research as Allegory","authors":"C. Durre","doi":"10.3316/CAR0102035","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3316/CAR0102035","url":null,"abstract":"Prospective graduate students in fine art often have to present themselves, for admission, candidature and examination, in the unhelpful language of the academic research tradition. These constraints too often result in a research project which is self-regarding, constipated by theory, or a type of faux science. This deforms the supervisory relationship and corrupts the creative endeavour. My response, both as an experienced supervisor and as a graduate student, is explored in this paper. I concentrate on the nexus where these agonies are felt most strongly, the relationship between the studio work and the exegesis. How can we manage their alliance more fruitfully, and far more honestly? The obsessions of a creative artist have mysterious origins. I assert that this enigma must be left inviolate, or we risk doing shoddy psychoanalysis in place of supervision, degraded sociology or solipsistic autobiography in place of research. The sublimated energies, of which creativity is one expression, can, however, be diverted to rewarding ends. If the attention is directed outwards, rather than wasted on reflexive self-analysis, all aspects of the degree are deepened. An investigative curiosity can be motivated both by the studio work and by textual-historical enquiry. I argue that this results in two texts in parallel, which transforms the research project as a totality into a work of allegory. In allegory, each text, verbal or visual, is allowed its own integrity, set in a dynamic of mutual interpretation or interpenetration. For the student of creative art, and her supervisor, this is a liberating objective.","PeriodicalId":177585,"journal":{"name":"Creative Approaches To Research","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130431963","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Between Antagonism and Surrender: Using Art to Dwell More Resolutely in Irresolution","authors":"Kelly Clark/Keefe","doi":"10.3316/CAR0201022","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3316/CAR0201022","url":null,"abstract":"For many years, I have turned to the visual arts to help me explore the partially ineffable and intercorporeal dimensions of my own and research participants' gendered and classed subjectivities. I have come to recognise this meaning-making impulse as A/r/tography (Irwin and de Cosson, 2004; Springgay, Irwin and Kind, 2005, 2008); a relational aesthetic approach to inquiring into and re-signifying my own and research participants' experiences with both replicating and resisting patriarchal and classist cultural structures. My use of a/r/tographic method is extended through the incorporation of Maggie MacLure's (2006) provocations for coupling a 'baroque method' of art with qualitative inquiry. Through illustration and reflection, this article seeks to interrupt the comfort and clarity of enduring humanist conceptualizations of interpretive inquiry, inaugurating a 'productively irritating' (MacLure, 2006) arts-informed method that allows the author/artist to dwell more resolutely in irresolute encounters with shifting social-class and gendered grounds of experience in United States schooling and higher education.","PeriodicalId":177585,"journal":{"name":"Creative Approaches To Research","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131259647","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Becoming a Doctor","authors":"Pat Sikes, Robyn Sikes-Sheard","doi":"10.3316/CAR0102023","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3316/CAR0102023","url":null,"abstract":"This is a story about the early stages of one young woman's journey towards becoming a doctor. The story is told by the girl and her mother using a chronological diary format. It makes an unashamedly subjective and personal contribution to the ongoing discussion about widening participation in higher education and it looks, unusually, at the perceptions and experiences, the stresses and the challenges that can be faced by an academically able, middle-class individual.","PeriodicalId":177585,"journal":{"name":"Creative Approaches To Research","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115092119","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Space Inside","authors":"Treahna Hamm","doi":"10.3316/CAR0101070","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3316/CAR0101070","url":null,"abstract":"Within my PhD project, I have explored new ways of telling old stories. Through my artwork, I explore questions about Aboriginal identity: Who are we? Who and what are we connected to? What does a family look like? The project creatively explores some of my own personal stories of family, as I search back through the stories of my community. The construction of individual and community identities will be a strong foundation of the project. The research questions are: How can stories reflect both individual narratives as well as the total community experience? In what ways can artwork achieve this purpose? In my PhD I have undertaken three major projects and have created a body of work in media including weavings, possum-skin cloaks, sculptures, prints, paintings, public art and breastplates.","PeriodicalId":177585,"journal":{"name":"Creative Approaches To Research","volume":"3 19","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132748376","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Foreword: You Changed My Life","authors":"L. Richardson","doi":"10.3316/CAR0101001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3316/CAR0101001","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":177585,"journal":{"name":"Creative Approaches To Research","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122486327","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"You Could Do with a Little More Gucci","authors":"A. Harris","doi":"10.3316/CAR0201071","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3316/CAR0201071","url":null,"abstract":"This article examines the research relationship between one Sudanese-Australian co-participant in the film series and doctoral research project Cross-marked: Sudanese-Australian Young Women Talk Education, and her American-Australian researcher. The article draws on recent ethnographic documentary film theory and the radical pedagogy scholarship of McLaren, Giroux and others to examine notions of becoming and the performative construction of self that occurs in schools. This creative doctoral research project uses short film to explore the educational experiences of Sudanese-Australian young women in Melbourne from refugee backgrounds, and offers possibilities for creative projects in educational contexts to enhance learning outcomes for both students and their teachers.","PeriodicalId":177585,"journal":{"name":"Creative Approaches To Research","volume":"233 5","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120899936","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Knowledge, Managed Professionals and Apartheid in the Academy","authors":"J. White","doi":"10.3316/CAR0302001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3316/CAR0302001","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":177585,"journal":{"name":"Creative Approaches To Research","volume":"90 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115821370","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Drawing as Conversation: Visual Encounters with Strangers","authors":"Angela Rogers","doi":"10.3316/CAR0101054","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3316/CAR0101054","url":null,"abstract":"This article discusses and illustrates the initial stages of a practice-led doctorate that investigates the potential of collaborative drawing as social encounter. The research is intended to realise drawing practice as both method and subject of inquiry. The article details the tentative beginnings of an emergent strategy. The first-hand account of an artist meeting strangers on trains to generate artwork and data describes a method that captures the subtleties of human interaction in an innovative visual form. Individual drawings and participants' commentary are discussed with specific references to models of dialogue, casual conversation and human computer interaction. The centrality of subjective experience, the interdependence of process and product, and the shift between what is known and what is revealed are characteristic of creative arts research.","PeriodicalId":177585,"journal":{"name":"Creative Approaches To Research","volume":"71 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130890788","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}