Poetics and Performance: Addressing the Challenges of Peer Review in Arts-Based Research

• In Event: Roundtable Session 18.
  In Roundtable Session: Disrupting Currents: Arts-Based Educational Research Across Contexts and Discourses

Abstract

The challenges inherent to the review process of poetic or performance-based inquiries, or creative submissions in other related alternate forms, is one that has been hotly debated in conference settings, between colleagues, and in the literature. Reviewers less familiar with poetic or performance approaches will find this paper useful in presenting selected key terms and qualitative touchstones that attend to the necessary vigor required of a peer-reviewed publication and the attendant aesthetic qualities present in a successful poetic- or performance-based study. As researchers who have made numerous contributions to each arts-based method under discussion here—and who have also surveyed each approach through meta-analyses—we are well placed to consider the challenges of reviewing poetic and performance research studies.

Authors

• Monica M. Prendergast, University of Victoria

• George Belliveau, The University of British Columbia