Self-Knowledge Creation Through Collective Poetic Inquiry
Cultivating Productive Resistance as University Academics
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2408884 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Daisy Pillay, Kathleen Pithouse-Morgan (0000-0001-8858-8213), Inbanathan Naicker (0000-0003-2092-0878) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 17 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 262-265 |
| Publication date | 2017-06-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Culture Studies ↔ Critical Methodologies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1532-7086 • E-ISSN: 1552-356X |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1532708617706118 |
| OpenAlex | W2609510266 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
| References cited | 4 |
We explore how using the literary arts-based methodology of collective poetic inquiry deepened our own self-knowledge as South African academics who choose to resist a neoliberal corporate model of higher education. Increasingly, poetry is recognized as a means of representing the distinctiveness, complexity and plurality of the voices of research participants and researchers. Also, poetry is understood as a mode of research analysis that can intensify creativity and reflexivity. Using found poetry in the pantoum and tanka formats, we provide an example of a poetic inquiry process in which we started off by exploring other university academics' lived experiences of working with graduate students and came to a turning point of reflexivity and self-realization. The escape highlights our evolving understanding that collaborative creativity and experimentation in research can be acts of self-knowledge creation for nurturing productive resistance as university academics
Aesthetics · Art · Creative writing · Creativity · Literature · Optimal distinctiveness theory · Pedagogy · Poetry · Reflexivity · Resistance (ecology · Social science · Sociology · The arts · Visual arts · Artistic and Creative Research · Higher Education Practises and Engagement · Psychology · Social Psychology
| Citations per year | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2020 - 2026 (7) |
| Highly cited | No |