“Stop Thinking Like a Social Scientist and Start Thinking Like an Artist”

Teman, Eric D.; Saldaña, Johnny

doi:10.1525/irqr.2019.12.4.453

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“…Only selected segments from narrative interviews were adapted into the two self-standing monologues that amplify some voices while omitting others. As Teman and Saldaña (2019) remind us, all arts-informed research methods have their own aesthetic shape. The modality of reader’s theatre merges participants’ voices with researchers’ creativity and aesthetic tastes, which obscures where data ends and where theatre begins.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…We elected to develop scripts in the form of a monologue, rather than a dialogue between two or more characters. Teman and Saldaña (2019) argue that a research-based monologue can render “a three-dimensional account of a character” (p. 467) by representing the character’s personality, value systems, emotions, and experiences of being human in a condensed format. By choosing a monologic form while not creating a concrete character, we transformed voices of several interviewees into one that speaks about the intricate and multifaceted nature of transitioning to adulthood.…”

Section: Translating Narrative Themes Into Reader’s Theatre Scriptsmentioning

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Transitions Theatre: Creating a Research-Based Reader’s Theatre With Disabled Youth and Their Families

Seko

Curran

et al. 2022

Qual Health Res

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Transition to adult life can be a challenging time for disabled youth and their families. This article describes the collaborative creation of Transitions Theatre, a research-based reader’s theatre activity based on narrative interviews with eight disabled youth (aged 17–22) and seven parents. Analysis of these interviews generated two opposing yet interrelated themes. On one hand, youth and families felt lost in transition facing multiple gaps in healthcare, financial support, education, and opportunities for social participation after having “aged out” of the pediatric system. On the other hand, they started cripping “normal” adulthood to envision more inclusive futures wherein disabilities are understood as integral to society. These two themes were transformed into two reader’s theatre scripts, one featuring a youth, the other featuring a parent. Seven youth and four parents (six of them were original interview participants) then participated in a Transitions Theatre workshop to read the scripts together and discuss the authenticity and relatability of the scripts. Participant feedback suggested that the reader’s theatre method was effective in sharing findings with research participants and stimulating a critical dialogue on how to (re)imagine transition to adulthood. We discuss the importance of implementing inclusive design strategies to make reader’s theatre accessible to participants with diverse abilities and preferences.

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Transitions Theatre: Creating a Research-Based Reader’s Theatre With Disabled Youth and Their Families

Seko

Curran

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Qual Health Res

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“…Live performance has the power to heighten the representation of social life (Teman & Saldaña, 2019). If the performative turn has been taken in ethnography, it is equally the case that the ethnographic turn has been taken in theatre.…”

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The potential of ethnographic drama in the representation, interpretation, and democratization of sociolinguistic research

Blackledge

Creese

2022

Journal of Sociolinguistics

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In this paper, we discuss the affordances of an approach to the representation, interpretation, and democratization of sociolinguistic research, which utilizes the tools and methods of the theatre. Taking as an example a team ethnographic research project conducted across four cities in the UK, we discuss the process of creating drama from material observed as social practice. Drawing on observations in a welfare advice centre in a Chinese community centre, and a city-based volleyball team, we propose that theatre techniques enable audiences and academic researchers to see communicative encounters in a new light. We propose that ethnographic drama offers three opportunities in particular: (i) it has the potential to make available outcomes of research beyond the academy; (ii) it has the potential to discover understandings of ethnographic material which remain latent in accounts that do not involve performance; and (iii) it has the capacity to democratize voice, privileging the voices of research participants rather than those of academic researchers. Ethnographic drama thus offers considerable potential in the representation, interpretation, and democratization of sociolinguistic research.

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“…To me, only live or electronically mediated embodied work, with thoughtfully crafted quality and artistic form presented in front of others serving as an audience, merits itself as performance” (Saldaña, 2011: 26). In conservative vision of performance Saldaña argues that we should give up with references (Saldaña, 2011; Teman and Seldaña 2019). Saldaña argues that the citations are against the art.…”

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Teaching (through) autoethnography

Szwabowski

Wężniejewska

Łozińska

2021

Research in Education

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This text is about teaching evocative autoethnography in higher education. The main part entitled ‘On stage’ is a record of the presentation at the “Ideatorium” conference devoted to academic teaching. We decided to talk about the project “Autoethnography of Study” which Oskar conducted at the University of Szczecin. Instead of describing, we showed what had happened. Or maybe what seemed to us – me, the lecturer and Paulina, the student – what had happened. This is an example of performative autoethnography.

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“Stop Thinking Like a Social Scientist and Start Thinking Like an Artist”

Cited by 10 publications

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Transitions Theatre: Creating a Research-Based Reader’s Theatre With Disabled Youth and Their Families

Transitions Theatre: Creating a Research-Based Reader’s Theatre With Disabled Youth and Their Families

The potential of ethnographic drama in the representation, interpretation, and democratization of sociolinguistic research

Teaching (through) autoethnography

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