47.083 - Performing Dissertation Research and Liberating Academic Writing

Session Type: Demonstration/Performance

Abstract

In this demonstration/performance session, a group of multiethnic researchers explore creative ways to push methodological boundaries, perform dissertation writing, and liberate academic writing by diving into life and writing into contradiction in schools, families, and communities in the U. S. South. Through visual, graphic, and multimedia presentations, reader’s theater, drama, slave narrative, freedom songs, poems, and spoken word, the presenters will illustrate diverse forms of dissertation research and representations such as critical race geographical narrative inquiry, slave narrative, auto/biographical inquiry, critical ethnographic inquiry, critical aesthetic inquiry, portraiture, memoir, fiction, oral history, documentary film, painting, poetry, and play. Innovative writings engendered from the inquiries will be also demonstrated. Potentials, challenges, and future directions of various inquiries and representations are also discussed.

Sub Unit

• SIG-Qualitative Research

Chair

• Sonia E. Janis, University of Georgia

Directors

• William (Bill) H. Schubert, University of Illinois at Chicago

• William C. Ayers, University of Illinois at Chicago

Papers

• Performing Dissertation Research and Liberating Academic Writing - Ming Fang He, Georgia Southern University

• Slavery Narrative: #School — The Metaphorical Plantation - Cabrala Reddick, Bulloch County Board of Education

• Performing Oral Histories of a Historically Black High School in Georgia - Marquez Hall, Richmond County School System

• Counternarratives of Students With Significant Disabilities in One Rural Elementary School - Christy Howard, Houston County Schools

• Critical Geographical Disability Studies: Counternarratives of the Pulled Out and Put Back In - Kristen Denney, South Effingham High School

• Performing the Seats of Power for Black Women Educators: A Play - Dawn C. Whipple, Cobb County School District