Renewing Lived Experiences in Academia: Critiquing Social Identities Through Multimodal Musically Enhanced Self-Inquiry

• In Event: AERA Roundtable Session Wednesday 2:30 pm Four Seasons Ballroom 1
  In Roundtable Session: Engaging Visual Data, Inquiry, and Storytelling (Table 1)

Abstract

Framed within a musically enhanced self-inquiry (MESI) methodology and design, we genrated reflexive visual data that illustrates our complex academic positionalities in relation to the social categories assigned to us. In doing so, we problematize the oversimplified and often essentialized characteristics found in the ubiquitous positionality statements now required in qualitative inquiry. Engaging in reflexivity through multimodalities can be a useful tool for education practitioners, counselors, educators, students to gain deeper insight.

Authors

• Naomi Ramirez, San Diego State University

• Marva Cappello, San Diego State University