A Self-Guided Gallery Walk of the Poster Session as a Difficult Exhibition

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Abstract

We seek to offer a break from the traditional exchange of research knowledge in the formal space of a poster session by offering the poster session as a curated exhibition site. Our particular poster within this AERA-poster-session-as-exhibition will function as a staging area, with a didactic explaining the project, along with pamphlets that offer a self-guided tour through the exhibition space. According to Godlewska (2013), structured spaces of learning, like the academic poster session, privilege one type of narrowly defined written intellect, marginalizing a great many “kinds of creativity, brilliance, and achievement” (p. 386). Instead, we argue that exhibitions can be set up to foster critical engagement.

Authors

• Daniel T. Barney, Brigham Young University

• Nadine M. Kalin, University of North Texas