Pauline Sameshima

Broschiertes Buch

Seeing Red--A Pedagogy of Parallax

An Epistolary Bildungsroman on Artful Scholarly Inquiry

Beschreibung

A brilliant and daring piece of scholarship, this book will raise eyebrows and spark much debate. It does not simply break new ground, it breaks all the rules¿¿ultimately compelling us to examine and embrace scholarship in fresh, innovative ways. Seeing Red is based on Pauline Sameshima's doctoral dissertation, Winner of the 2007 Arts Based Educational Research (ABER) Outstanding Dissertation Award by the American Educational Research Association (AERA). This award is for the best dissertation that explores, is an exemplar of, and pushes the boundaries of arts based educational research. The book showcases a PhD dissertation written in the form of an epistolary bildungsroman¿a didactic novel of personal developmental journeying. The work is a fiction (letters from a graduate student to the professor she is in love with) embedded in developmental understanding of living the life of a teacher researcher. The work shares the possibilities of how artful research informs processes of scholarly inquiry and honours the reader's multi-perspective as integral to the research project's transformative potential. Parallax is the apparent change of location of an object against a background due to a change in observer position or perspective shift. The concept of parallax encourages researchers and teachers to acknowledge and value the power of their own and their readers¿ and students' shifting subjectivities and situatedness which directly influence the constructs of perception, interpretation, and learning. The novel format ties themes and characters together just as storytelling can bind theory and practice. Norman Denzin (2005) supports the pedagogical and libratory nature of the critical democratic storytelling imagination. He hails this book as "... bold, innovative, a wild, transformative text, ... almost unruly, a new vision for critical, reflexive inquiry." The love story and issues of teacher/learner role boundaries are controversial and largely unspoken of in educational settings and the letter format is voyeuristic. In this sense, the audience is being given a peek, a look at the unrevealed. One of the advantages of the epistolary novel is its semblance of reality and the difficulty for readers to distinguish the text from genuine correspondence (Wurzbach, 1969). The genre allows the reader access to the writing character's intimate thoughts without perceived interference from the author's manipulation and conveys events with dramatic and sensational immediacy (Carafi, 1997).

Autor

Dr. Pauline Sameshima is a curriculum theorist, educator, curator, editor, artist, and writer. Pauline served as the Canada Research Chair in Arts Integrated Studies from 2012-2022. She was inducted to the College of the Royal Society of Canada, one of the highest achievements recognizing scholarly excellence. Pauline has won international awards for her books on curriculum theory, interdisciplinary methodology, and poetic inquiry, including the co-authored Parallaxic Praxis: Multimodal Interdisciplinary Pedagogical Research Design, which received the 2020 Society of Professors of Education Outstanding Book Award. She lives in Thunder Bay, Ontario. Robin Faye holds an Honours Bachelor of Fine Arts (HBFA) and a Master of Education (MEd) with a specialization in environmental and sustainability education. As a visual artist, she has twice received Lakehead University's LAIR Award for excellence in art and research. Robin is an active member of Citizens United for a Sustainable Planet. She is an uninvited guest on the territory of the Anishinaabe of the Fort William First Nation, and thus a hereditary signatory to the Robinson Superior Treaty of 1850.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambria Press
• Seitenzahl: 396
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. März 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 497g
• ISBN-13: 9781934043646
• ISBN-10: 1934043648
• Artikelnr.: 22785585