Do You Hear What I Hear? The Poetics of a Calling

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  In Roundtable Session: Making Meaning Through Art: Methodological Approaches to Arts-Based Educational Research

Abstract

In this paper the author approaches the phenomena of the calling to teach through a distinct art-based research approach. By engaging in researcher-participant conversation and by using poetry to make meaning, a divergent qualitative research paradigm is presented. The author and participant created original works of poetry distilling for each of them the essence of what it meant to be called to be a teacher. These poems were then exchanged and used as dialogue-starters for another set of poems. The poetry, therefore, became both the product and a part of the art-based research process.

Author

• Daryl A. Ward, University of South Florida