Inscriptive Poetry: Actualizing Student Voice Through Prosaic Reinvention

• In Event: 43.038 - Participatory Action Research: Empowering Student Voices Through the Lens of Critical Pedagogy

Abstract

The ubiquity of students throughout every dimension of the classroom experience makes the facilitation of their voices a key tool for consciousness-raising and the promotion of equitable, pluralistic, and democratic policies and pedagogies. Arts-based research represents a unique vessel for facilitating and actualizing student voice in an increasingly interconnected, politically charged world. We designed an accessible, participatory application of Black-Out Poetry that emphasizes the relationship of participants to their broader political environment. Through the application of semiotics and a focus on anti-oppressive pedagogy, we posit that art curricula of all kinds are essential in empowering student voice to approach and begin to dismantle the oppression of minoritized peoples, a pressing issue in a “post truth” era.

Authors

• Tonya D. Callaghan, University of Calgary

• Zac Wierzbicki, University of Calgary

• Simona Singh, University of Calgary