Defiance or Unique Engagement? A Poetic Inquiry of Arts Programming

• In Event: Fairmont Roundtable Session Three
  In Roundtable Session: Youth Perspectives and Identities Through Artistic Modalities (Table 8)

Abstract

Using poetic inquiry (Saldaña, 2011) the original language of researcher’s observations, has been extracted into three poetry collections to depict the stories of students in artist-in-residencies. These collections are titled The Power of Drums, The Performance of Ourselves, and Something Extraordinary. We analyzed these poetry collections across three arts programing to understand potential benefits and positive responses specifically on behaviors that are traditionally described as defiant or disruptive. To help guide this research we asked: (1) How can poetic inquiry give us a deeper understanding and better visualization of the connections in arts programming? (2) In what ways does arts programming create an environment that fosters healthy defiant leadership and innovation?

Authors

• Cassidy L. Martin, University of Wisconsin - Madison
  Presenting Author

• Erica Rosenfeld Halverson, University of Wisconsin - Madison
  Non-Presenting Author

• Yorel Lashley, University of Wisconsin - Madison
  Non-Presenting Author