Creating Polyvocal Poetic Play in Self-Study Scholarship

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Abstract

Looking at our polyvocal poetic play in self-study scholarship, a word cloud of frequently used words in publication titles made visible this work’s central features. Juxtaposing our word cloud with two more that included others’ poetic self-study scholarship allowed us to examine our work as a duo in the context of two decades of poetic self-study research. We noticed bricolage, polyvocal, creativity, play, transdisciplinary, virtual, and place featured distinctively in our titles. Interweaving our thinking inspired by these words to create a double voice poem, followed by letter-writing, deepened our understanding of the “why” and “so what?” of our poetic self-study. This paper illuminates how poetic self-study can grow possibilities for expansive learning – changing professional ways of knowing and being.

Authors

• Anastasia P. Samaras, George Mason University

• Kathleen Pithouse-Morgan, The University of Nottingham