Motherscholaring: A Collective Poetic Autoethnographic Inquiry

Session Type: Demonstration/Performance

Abstract

Through four years of labor, in both formal and informal motherfull spaces three motherscholars have engaged in an emerging methodology, collective poetic autoethnographic inquiry (Pithouse-Morgan et al., 2017), to bridge the often-conflicting realities of our personal and professional selves. This demonstration shares poetic forms with two aims: (a) to add to emergent literature on the concept of motherscholaring and (b) to offer methodological contributions to collective autoethnographic poetic inquiry as a generative, arts-based methodology.

Sub Unit

• SIG-Arts-Based Educational Research

Papers

• Motherscholaring: A Collective Poetic Autoethnographic Inquiry - Kindel Turner Nash, University of Maryland - Baltimore County; Joy Howard, University of Southern Indiana; Candace Marie Thompson, University of North Carolina - Wilmington