Poetics as Narrative Form: Examining the Epistemological and Methodological Value

• In Event: Roundtable Session 85
  In Roundtable Session: Entryways Into Academia: Complexities and Tensions

Abstract

The author examines, using educational poetics as a narrative form of inquiry, pedagogical practices that incorporate a poetics of leadership activity. Poetics translates as a process of active response to the world, involving a deepening understanding and sensitivity” to democracy, and “mirrors how events, actions, and the conduct of others can all express intellectual, aesthetic, and moral meaning. The author presents three years of research on the use of the poetics activity for doctoral studies in educational leadership. The author explores how leadership preparation and leadership practice have a significant poetic dimension with respect to the search for personal meaning and the development of authentic understanding. Research findings and exemplars of poetic elements are presented in the study.

Author

• Patrick M. Jenlink, Stephen F. Austin State University