Full Description
This book isbased on the author's Educational Doctorate thesis. The Road to Found Poetry introduces the use of found poetry as an alternative means of knowing and understanding in various educational and non-educational contexts. Its ambition is to encourage educational researchers, educators, academics, undergraduate and postgraduate students, and practitioners interested in experimenting with a novel approach of analysis, presentation and dissemination that helps in gaining a deeper insight of research participants' experiences.
The book moves beyond the traditionally accepted methods of doing research and offers a better understanding of people's perceptions and lived experiences. This new arts-based research methodology is participatory in nature and gives voice to researchers and research participants. It creates possibilities for researcher's reflexivity and participant's agency.
Contents
Foreword
Allan Owens
Preface
Acknowledgements
About the Author
1 Personal and Professional Background Experience: The Road to Found Poetry
1 Personal Context
2 Professional Background Experience
3 Conclusion
2 Poetic Inquiry as Method and Methodology
1 Research Aims and Questions
2 Significance of the Research
3 Research Design
4 Research Design and Methodology
5 Conclusion
3 Presentation of Data
1 Presentation of Themes
2 Conclusion
4 Arts-Based Research: Paving the Way
1 Arts-Based Research
2 Found Poetry
3 Conclusion
5 Researcher's Reflexivity and Participant's Agency
6 Experimenting with Found Poetry in Doctoral Research
7 The Potential of Analyzing and Presenting People's Perceptions and Lived Experiences through Found Poetry
8 Thoughts, Concerns, Limitations and Contribution to Knowledge
1 Thoughts on the Power of Drama
2 Thoughts on the Use of Found Poetry in/as Research
3 Limitations and Opportunities for Future Research
4 Contribution to Knowledge
5 Final Reflections
6 Conclusion
Index
