Susan Finley
Biographic Data
| ID | 3887622 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Susan Finley |
| GIVEN NAMES | Susan |
| FAMILY NAME | Finley |
| SIGNATURE | FINLEY S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Washington State University Vancouver |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 146 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
BwO
Guns and Butter
The buzz about violence in schools has lightened during the COVID-19 pandemic, but without a plan or resolution to the problems of gun availability, pervasive gun culture and other issues of violence in U.S. schools and society. In recent, pre-COVID conversation with preservice teachers and school administrators (separate conversations), I was surprised by the support that was expressed for a highly-policed school environment that includes armed …
A teacher’s journey: A first-person account of how a gay, Cambodian refugee navigated myriad barriers to become educated in the United States
Educational institutions, like most social service organizations, need to recognize intersectionality and complexity and move away from monolithic conceptions of homelessness – if they recognize homelessness at all. This first person account of a gay, Cambodian refugee illustrates the enormous complexity schools face in forming institutional responses for the needs of homeless, highly mobile, and economically displaced children and youth. This ar…
Embodied Homelessness: The Pros/Thesis of Art Research
I locate my art and scholarship in the liminal spaces between the contrived socially and historically constructed metanarratives that explain poverty and the actual lived experiences of street youths, residents in tent communities, and sheltered and unsheltered children in America. Murals, poetry, re-purposed design and constructions, "found art," and ecoaesthetics have been used for the telling of these personal experiences in an attempt to make…
At Home At School: Critical Arts-Based Research as Public Pedagogy
This article demonstrates the pedagogy and performance of a radical ethical aesthetic. It emerges from a mural-making project that exists in the confluence of critical arts-based research and emancipatory and transformative educational practices. Critical arts-based inquiry is a methodology for ethical research that is futuristic, socially responsible, and useful in addressing social inequities. The critical arts-based research that is demonstrat…
Synergy: A Found Poem
An Introduction to Critical Arts-Based Research: Demonstrating Methodologies and Practices of a Radical Ethical Aesthetic
School days in China: An interview with Ling Li, Professor and Associate Director of the Center for International and Comparative Education, Southwest University, Chongqing, China
Ling Li, who is an education professor in China, initiated the conversations that resulted in the dialog presented in this article. She sought out Susan’s support for a grant from the Chinese government for arts-based educational research. Correspondences between Susan and Ling have continued over two years and set the stage for Morgan’s research about Chinese public policy. The resulting interviews are greatly abridged for this article; with the…
Critical constructions of childhood: Globalized homelessness and poverty
Children Talk to Charles Dickens about Their Own “Hard Times”: A Reader's Theater in One Act
The focus of this research narrative is children's perceptions of social class and their experiences of poverty as a social identity. Participatory action research that includes narrative reflection is demonstrated for its capacity and potential as a source of agency that may contribute to youths' academic, social, and political emancipation. In this research we analyze perceptions and attitudes about social class as these perceptions and attitud…
Ecoaesthetics: Green Arts at the Intersection of Education and Social Transformation
This article explores several dimensions of the role of arts education in processes of social change: It addresses the power of art as a voice of dissent at the core of a critical revolutionary pedagogy that is deeply relevant and transformative toward a socially just, democratic, and existentially responsible educational aesthetic. Of particular interest are the possibilities for creating an emancipatory pedagogy that scaffolds actively transfor…
We thank the following reviewers who rendered extraordinary services to the International Review of Qualitative Research, Volume 2
Freedom's Just Another Word for Nothin' Left to Lose: The Power of Poetry for Young, Nomadic Women of the Streets
This article presents a street educator's experience of a poetry cooperative with female street youths as an example of performance pedagogy. Poetic voices of members of the cooperative are used to illustrate the pages of this special issue of CSCM in the text of this article and as they are scattered through the pagesof this special issue like graffiti on tunnel walls. In a coda to the article, the poetry collaborative is shown to be the catalys…
Poverty Pimps in the Academy: A Dialogue About Subjectivity, Reflexivity, and Power in Decolonizing Production of Knowledge
The authors often talk about the moral and ethical predicaments they experience working with marginalized populations. But such conversations, confessions, and verbalized doubts happened in intimate settings, often with out office doors closed or when the hallways are quiet and empty. This is not a whisper of secrecy or conspiracy but one of self-reflexive contemplation about the privilege differential between the authors and the humans they enco…
Critical Homelessness: Expanding Narratives of Inclusive Democracy
The experience (as opposed to the concept) of homelessness is hardly part of the academic discourse in education, cultural studies, or human development. One of the central goals of our special issue is to create a bridge between homelessness as a personal experience and homelessness as a public issue. Along with the personal experience that breaks free from the deficit-model informing dominant notions of homelessness, we also want to bring atten…
Interrupting History: Anti-Intellectualism in the George W. Bush Administration
Arts-Based Research
Goodbye Egon Guba: A Letter to His Wife, Yvonna S. Lincoln
The power of space: Constructing a dialog of resistance, transformation, and homelessness
Homelessness is an economic condition. Its sources are poverty and a shortage ofaffordable housing. The rapid globalization of economic oppression intensifies theproblems of new poverty and creates homelessness, globally and in the UnitedStates. Speaking to the United Nations Commission on Human Rights (April,2001
The faces of dignity: Rethinking the politics of homelessness and poverty in America
The conditions of homelessness and poverty in America are being criminalized and pathologized such that people who are poor or homeless are marginalized and paternalized to the point of corrupting the possibility of human dignity. In a radical revision of accepted charity models for dealing with homelessness, a group of homeless people have established their own tent community based in the concepts of democracy, community, and care. At Dignity Vi…
Arts-Based Inquiry in QI: Seven Years From Crisis to Guerrilla Warfare
This commentary reconsiders emerging standards for evaluation of the field of practice of qualitative inquiry and arts-based approaches. Specifically, this is a review of the dialogue around issues of standards that has continued through the first seven volumes of Qualitative Inquiry ( QI), from March 1995 through June 2001, and is inclusive of this special issue of QI devoted to arts-based inquiry. What has emerged in QI is an action-oriented wo…
Dream Child: The Role of Poetic Dialogue in Homeless Research
This article represents the usefulness of artistic approaches to social science research. Following a brief introduction to the research context-an inquiry into the life experiences of homeless youth travelers-the author presents a poem that interweaves snippets of conversations audiotaped during the inquiry with lines of poetry that she has written in her reflections about the research process and with poetry written by a 17-year-old female trav…
Sp'ange: 1 A Research Story
The authors use a storied representation to highlight the aesthetic and feeling qualities of their research about homeless youth. The authors also include a description of their mother/son research collaboration and the impact of that relationship on the research process. Names of youth are pseudonyms or street names, and all dialogues and reflections with participants were taken from audiotaped conversations. The following several themes are dev…
Researcher as Artist/Artist as Researcher
This is a postmodern article that is nontraditional in its form, content, and mode of representation. Upon recognizing that we share interests and common experiences as artists, we decided to collect life history information from each other about our artistic experiences. Thus we have become, simultaneously, "the researched" and "the re searcher." In these conversations, we explore the ways in which we were each guided by our past, very strong ae…
Arts-Based Inquiry in QI: Seven Years From Crisis to Guerrilla Warfare
This commentary reconsiders emerging standards for evaluation of the field of practice of qualitative inquiry and arts-based approaches. Specifically, this is a review of the dialogue around issues of standards that has continued through the first seven volumes of Qualitative Inquiry ( QI), from March 1995 through June 2001, and is inclusive of this special issue of QI devoted to arts-based inquiry. What has emerged in QI is an action-oriented wo…
Researcher as Artist/Artist as Researcher
This is a postmodern article that is nontraditional in its form, content, and mode of representation. Upon recognizing that we share interests and common experiences as artists, we decided to collect life history information from each other about our artistic experiences. Thus we have become, simultaneously, "the researched" and "the re searcher." In these conversations, we explore the ways in which we were each guided by our past, very strong ae…
Sp'ange: 1 A Research Story
The authors use a storied representation to highlight the aesthetic and feeling qualities of their research about homeless youth. The authors also include a description of their mother/son research collaboration and the impact of that relationship on the research process. Names of youth are pseudonyms or street names, and all dialogues and reflections with participants were taken from audiotaped conversations. The following several themes are dev…
An Introduction to Critical Arts-Based Research: Demonstrating Methodologies and Practices of a Radical Ethical Aesthetic
Critical Homelessness: Expanding Narratives of Inclusive Democracy
The experience (as opposed to the concept) of homelessness is hardly part of the academic discourse in education, cultural studies, or human development. One of the central goals of our special issue is to create a bridge between homelessness as a personal experience and homelessness as a public issue. Along with the personal experience that breaks free from the deficit-model informing dominant notions of homelessness, we also want to bring atten…
Dream Child: The Role of Poetic Dialogue in Homeless Research
This article represents the usefulness of artistic approaches to social science research. Following a brief introduction to the research context-an inquiry into the life experiences of homeless youth travelers-the author presents a poem that interweaves snippets of conversations audiotaped during the inquiry with lines of poetry that she has written in her reflections about the research process and with poetry written by a 17-year-old female trav…
The faces of dignity: Rethinking the politics of homelessness and poverty in America
The conditions of homelessness and poverty in America are being criminalized and pathologized such that people who are poor or homeless are marginalized and paternalized to the point of corrupting the possibility of human dignity. In a radical revision of accepted charity models for dealing with homelessness, a group of homeless people have established their own tent community based in the concepts of democracy, community, and care. At Dignity Vi…
A teacher’s journey: A first-person account of how a gay, Cambodian refugee navigated myriad barriers to become educated in the United States
Educational institutions, like most social service organizations, need to recognize intersectionality and complexity and move away from monolithic conceptions of homelessness – if they recognize homelessness at all. This first person account of a gay, Cambodian refugee illustrates the enormous complexity schools face in forming institutional responses for the needs of homeless, highly mobile, and economically displaced children and youth. This ar…
Ecoaesthetics: Green Arts at the Intersection of Education and Social Transformation
This article explores several dimensions of the role of arts education in processes of social change: It addresses the power of art as a voice of dissent at the core of a critical revolutionary pedagogy that is deeply relevant and transformative toward a socially just, democratic, and existentially responsible educational aesthetic. Of particular interest are the possibilities for creating an emancipatory pedagogy that scaffolds actively transfor…
Embodied Homelessness: The Pros/Thesis of Art Research
I locate my art and scholarship in the liminal spaces between the contrived socially and historically constructed metanarratives that explain poverty and the actual lived experiences of street youths, residents in tent communities, and sheltered and unsheltered children in America. Murals, poetry, re-purposed design and constructions, "found art," and ecoaesthetics have been used for the telling of these personal experiences in an attempt to make…
At Home At School: Critical Arts-Based Research as Public Pedagogy
This article demonstrates the pedagogy and performance of a radical ethical aesthetic. It emerges from a mural-making project that exists in the confluence of critical arts-based research and emancipatory and transformative educational practices. Critical arts-based inquiry is a methodology for ethical research that is futuristic, socially responsible, and useful in addressing social inequities. The critical arts-based research that is demonstrat…
Poverty Pimps in the Academy: A Dialogue About Subjectivity, Reflexivity, and Power in Decolonizing Production of Knowledge
The authors often talk about the moral and ethical predicaments they experience working with marginalized populations. But such conversations, confessions, and verbalized doubts happened in intimate settings, often with out office doors closed or when the hallways are quiet and empty. This is not a whisper of secrecy or conspiracy but one of self-reflexive contemplation about the privilege differential between the authors and the humans they enco…
Guns and Butter
The buzz about violence in schools has lightened during the COVID-19 pandemic, but without a plan or resolution to the problems of gun availability, pervasive gun culture and other issues of violence in U.S. schools and society. In recent, pre-COVID conversation with preservice teachers and school administrators (separate conversations), I was surprised by the support that was expressed for a highly-policed school environment that includes armed …
Interrupting History: Anti-Intellectualism in the George W. Bush Administration
Researcher as Artist/Artist as Researcher
This is a postmodern article that is nontraditional in its form, content, and mode of representation. Upon recognizing that we share interests and common experiences as artists, we decided to collect life history information from each other about our artistic experiences. Thus we have become, simultaneously, "the researched" and "the re searcher." In these conversations, we explore the ways in which we were each guided by our past, very strong ae…
Sp'ange: 1 A Research Story
The authors use a storied representation to highlight the aesthetic and feeling qualities of their research about homeless youth. The authors also include a description of their mother/son research collaboration and the impact of that relationship on the research process. Names of youth are pseudonyms or street names, and all dialogues and reflections with participants were taken from audiotaped conversations. The following several themes are dev…
Dream Child: The Role of Poetic Dialogue in Homeless Research
This article represents the usefulness of artistic approaches to social science research. Following a brief introduction to the research context-an inquiry into the life experiences of homeless youth travelers-the author presents a poem that interweaves snippets of conversations audiotaped during the inquiry with lines of poetry that she has written in her reflections about the research process and with poetry written by a 17-year-old female trav…
The power of space: Constructing a dialog of resistance, transformation, and homelessness
Homelessness is an economic condition. Its sources are poverty and a shortage ofaffordable housing. The rapid globalization of economic oppression intensifies theproblems of new poverty and creates homelessness, globally and in the UnitedStates. Speaking to the United Nations Commission on Human Rights (April,2001
The faces of dignity: Rethinking the politics of homelessness and poverty in America
The conditions of homelessness and poverty in America are being criminalized and pathologized such that people who are poor or homeless are marginalized and paternalized to the point of corrupting the possibility of human dignity. In a radical revision of accepted charity models for dealing with homelessness, a group of homeless people have established their own tent community based in the concepts of democracy, community, and care. At Dignity Vi…
Arts-Based Inquiry in QI: Seven Years From Crisis to Guerrilla Warfare
This commentary reconsiders emerging standards for evaluation of the field of practice of qualitative inquiry and arts-based approaches. Specifically, this is a review of the dialogue around issues of standards that has continued through the first seven volumes of Qualitative Inquiry ( QI), from March 1995 through June 2001, and is inclusive of this special issue of QI devoted to arts-based inquiry. What has emerged in QI is an action-oriented wo…
Arts-Based Research
Goodbye Egon Guba: A Letter to His Wife, Yvonna S. Lincoln
Interrupting History: Anti-Intellectualism in the George W. Bush Administration
We thank the following reviewers who rendered extraordinary services to the International Review of Qualitative Research, Volume 2
Freedom's Just Another Word for Nothin' Left to Lose: The Power of Poetry for Young, Nomadic Women of the Streets
This article presents a street educator's experience of a poetry cooperative with female street youths as an example of performance pedagogy. Poetic voices of members of the cooperative are used to illustrate the pages of this special issue of CSCM in the text of this article and as they are scattered through the pagesof this special issue like graffiti on tunnel walls. In a coda to the article, the poetry collaborative is shown to be the catalys…
Poverty Pimps in the Academy: A Dialogue About Subjectivity, Reflexivity, and Power in Decolonizing Production of Knowledge
The authors often talk about the moral and ethical predicaments they experience working with marginalized populations. But such conversations, confessions, and verbalized doubts happened in intimate settings, often with out office doors closed or when the hallways are quiet and empty. This is not a whisper of secrecy or conspiracy but one of self-reflexive contemplation about the privilege differential between the authors and the humans they enco…
Critical Homelessness: Expanding Narratives of Inclusive Democracy
The experience (as opposed to the concept) of homelessness is hardly part of the academic discourse in education, cultural studies, or human development. One of the central goals of our special issue is to create a bridge between homelessness as a personal experience and homelessness as a public issue. Along with the personal experience that breaks free from the deficit-model informing dominant notions of homelessness, we also want to bring atten…
Children Talk to Charles Dickens about Their Own “Hard Times”: A Reader's Theater in One Act
The focus of this research narrative is children's perceptions of social class and their experiences of poverty as a social identity. Participatory action research that includes narrative reflection is demonstrated for its capacity and potential as a source of agency that may contribute to youths' academic, social, and political emancipation. In this research we analyze perceptions and attitudes about social class as these perceptions and attitud…
Ecoaesthetics: Green Arts at the Intersection of Education and Social Transformation
This article explores several dimensions of the role of arts education in processes of social change: It addresses the power of art as a voice of dissent at the core of a critical revolutionary pedagogy that is deeply relevant and transformative toward a socially just, democratic, and existentially responsible educational aesthetic. Of particular interest are the possibilities for creating an emancipatory pedagogy that scaffolds actively transfor…
School days in China: An interview with Ling Li, Professor and Associate Director of the Center for International and Comparative Education, Southwest University, Chongqing, China
Ling Li, who is an education professor in China, initiated the conversations that resulted in the dialog presented in this article. She sought out Susan’s support for a grant from the Chinese government for arts-based educational research. Correspondences between Susan and Ling have continued over two years and set the stage for Morgan’s research about Chinese public policy. The resulting interviews are greatly abridged for this article; with the…
Critical constructions of childhood: Globalized homelessness and poverty
At Home At School: Critical Arts-Based Research as Public Pedagogy
This article demonstrates the pedagogy and performance of a radical ethical aesthetic. It emerges from a mural-making project that exists in the confluence of critical arts-based research and emancipatory and transformative educational practices. Critical arts-based inquiry is a methodology for ethical research that is futuristic, socially responsible, and useful in addressing social inequities. The critical arts-based research that is demonstrat…
Synergy: A Found Poem
An Introduction to Critical Arts-Based Research: Demonstrating Methodologies and Practices of a Radical Ethical Aesthetic
A teacher’s journey: A first-person account of how a gay, Cambodian refugee navigated myriad barriers to become educated in the United States
Educational institutions, like most social service organizations, need to recognize intersectionality and complexity and move away from monolithic conceptions of homelessness – if they recognize homelessness at all. This first person account of a gay, Cambodian refugee illustrates the enormous complexity schools face in forming institutional responses for the needs of homeless, highly mobile, and economically displaced children and youth. This ar…
Embodied Homelessness: The Pros/Thesis of Art Research
I locate my art and scholarship in the liminal spaces between the contrived socially and historically constructed metanarratives that explain poverty and the actual lived experiences of street youths, residents in tent communities, and sheltered and unsheltered children in America. Murals, poetry, re-purposed design and constructions, "found art," and ecoaesthetics have been used for the telling of these personal experiences in an attempt to make…
BwO
Guns and Butter
The buzz about violence in schools has lightened during the COVID-19 pandemic, but without a plan or resolution to the problems of gun availability, pervasive gun culture and other issues of violence in U.S. schools and society. In recent, pre-COVID conversation with preservice teachers and school administrators (separate conversations), I was surprised by the support that was expressed for a highly-policed school environment that includes armed …
Sociology (21 works) · Political science (15 works) · Law (10 works) · Art (9 works) · Homelessness and Social Issues (8 works) · Pedagogy (8 works) · Gender Studies (7 works) · Politics (7 works) · Psychology (7 works) · Aesthetics (6 works)