What poetry does for us in education and research

Fitzpatrick, Esther; Fitzpatrick, Katie

doi:10.4324/9780429202117-1

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“…Prose poetry is written like prose, in paragraphs rather than verse, but contains the characteristics of poetry, such as poetic meter, language play, and a focus on images rather than narrative, plot, and character. Fitzpatrick and Fitzpatrick [11] portrayed the role of poetry in their research writing. KATIE: "poetry is, actually, one of the things that keeps me alive in the academy.…”

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Surfacing Anger and Anxiety in Graduate Research Writing: A Prose Poetic Journey

Calimag¹

2021

JMUST

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Research writing evokes feelings of anger and anxiety even among graduate students. Feelings are an inseparable part of the human lived experience and are important to learning and decision making. Research anxiety is powerful but not impossible to overcome. Various affective, cognitive, linguistic, and pedagogical mitigating strategies can be employed. By simply acknowledging its existence, we lead our students in the direction of doing just that...towards a transformational mindset to overcome research anxiety. Written qualitatively in the hermeneutic strand, this paper explores the lived experience and collective portrayals of the phenomenon of graduate research writing anxiety using prose poetry. The main forms of poetry qualitative researchers create vary from data poems or transcription poems, research poems, and autoethnographic poetry. Autoethnographic poetry is created by the author through self-reflection and writing to explore anecdotal and personal experiences and connect this autobiographical story to wider cultural, political, and social meanings and understandings. In this paper, the author writes from an emic perspective utilizing intertextual chaining to create an autoethnographic research prose poetry. The paper describes in rich detail, the dominant feelings about research writing anxiety and anger that surfaced from participants’ narratives of their shared experience of research writing anxiety. Prose poetry is written in paragraphs rather than verse but contains the elements of poetry, such as poetic meter, language play, and a focus on images rather than narrative, plot, and character.

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Section: Methodsmentioning

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Surfacing Anger and Anxiety in Graduate Research Writing: A Prose Poetic Journey

Calimag¹

2021

JMUST

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“…The approach is gaining traction in many social science disciplines, including sociology, psychology, anthropology, and education [ 10 ]. Reasons for the use of poetic inquiry include preservation of participant voice [ 7 ], to explore the relationship between language and meaning [ 11 , 12 ], to deepen researcher reflexivity [ 13 ], and to increase the emotive impact and accessibility of academic research [ 14 ] as poetic inquiry can help both researchers and audiences engage more deeply with participant accounts [ 15 ]. Additionally, through its attention to language, poetic inquiry is a rigorous approach—it allows ‘thoughts [to] breathe’—whilst also promoting an emotive efficiency of qualitative expression which helps ‘words [to] burn’.…”

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Thoughts that breathe, and words that burn: poetic inquiry within health professions education

2021

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Qualitative inquiry is increasingly popular in health professions education, and there has been a move to solidify processes of analysis to demystify the practice and increase rigour. Whilst important, being bound too heavily by methodological processes potentially represses the imaginative creativity of qualitative expression and interpretation—traditional cornerstones of the approach. Rigid adherence to analytic steps risks leaving no time or space for moments of ‘wonder’ or emotional responses which facilitate rich engagement. Poetic inquiry, defined as research which uses poetry ‘as, in, [or] for inquiry’, offers ways to encourage creativity and deep engagement with qualitative data within health professions education. Poetic inquiry attends carefully to participant language, can deepen researcher reflexivity, may increase the emotive impact of research, and promotes an efficiency of qualitative expression through the use of ‘razor sharp’ language. This A Qualitative Space paper introduces the approach by outlining how it may be applied to inquiry within health professions education. Approaches to engaging with poetic inquiry are discussed and illustrated using examples from the field’s scholarship. Finally, recommendations for interested researchers on how to engage with poetic inquiry are made, including suggestions as to how to poetize existing qualitative research practices.

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“…Poetry, for us, became a creative form of inquiry and (re)presentation. Through its evocative style, poetry can draw attention to marginalized voices and identities (Faulkner, 2017), destabilize traditional research/practice hierarchies (Fitzpatrick & Fitzpatrick, 2020), reach diverse audiences (Sparkes et al, 2003), and open a multitude of sensory and cognitive responses to shift the researcher and reader to think and act differently (Glesne, 1997). Here, we turned to poetic inquiry and (re)presentation, with the hope and an understanding that poetic forms produce affective capacities that, in turn, can lead to (social) change.…”

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Beyond the BEEPs: affect, FitnessGram®, and diverse youth

Safron

Landi²

2021

Sport, Education and Society

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This paper draws on two separate research projects, one with Black and Latinx youth in the United States and another with LGBTQ+ youth in New Zealand, to explore the affective experiences of young people with the FitnessGram® assessment. We specifically use affect theory through poetic inquiry to entangle interview data from young participants about their experiences with FitnessGram®. We then (re)present the data through poetic forms. We argue the turn to affect and poetic inquiry allows us, as researchers, to respond to dominant discourses around FitnessGram® (and young bodies) in critical and creative ways. And, we embrace the experimental, open-ended potential of poetic (re)presentation to bring awareness to the youths' experiences and to encourage others (researchers, educators, practitioners, policymakers) to engage differently as well. We hope, through such aesthetic forms, we can start to value the affects of FitnessGram® on youth and think divergently about this popular practice.

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What poetry does for us in education and research

Cited by 13 publications

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Surfacing Anger and Anxiety in Graduate Research Writing: A Prose Poetic Journey

Surfacing Anger and Anxiety in Graduate Research Writing: A Prose Poetic Journey

Thoughts that breathe, and words that burn: poetic inquiry within health professions education

Beyond the BEEPs: affect, FitnessGram®, and diverse youth

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