Fostering Optimal Learning Spaces Through Embodied Poetic Narrative

• In Event: Disrupting Representations in Research

Abstract

Embodied Poetic Narrative, a triangulation of body, story, and object in creative and shared play which explores notions of self and other. This curriculum model, with multiple entry points, invites teachers/participants to engage in creative writing and/or movement in combination with shared stories developed from objects of value. Imaginative explorations invite the body’s centre of gravity to shift provoking the axis of knowing to be disrupted. Lived experiences are re-interpreted, re-storied, and then re-imagined with others. Fracturing the signifiers of our everyday(ness) we come to shared understandings and intersections of commonalities are cultivated. Embodied Poetic Narratives creates powerful, dynamic pedagogic environments whereby forgotten or suppressed memories, can activate personal agency and self politicized action towards transformative learning.

Author

• Kathryn Ann Ricketts, Simon Fraser University