The Road to Found Poetry

Understanding People's Perceptions and Lived Experiences Creatively
Erscheinungsjahr 2025
ISBN: 978-90-04-73698-6
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 18, 126 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm

Reihe: Arts, Creativities, and Learning Environments in Global Perspectives

This book isbased on the author's Educational Doctorate thesis. The Road to Found Poetry introduces the use of found poetry as an alternative means of knowing and understanding in various educational and non-educational contexts. Its ambition is to encourage educational researchers, educators, academics, undergraduate and postgraduate students, and practitioners interested in experimenting with a novel approach of analysis, presentation and dissemination that helps in gaining a deeper insight of research participants’ experiences.

The book moves beyond the traditionally accepted methods of doing research and offers a better understanding of people’s perceptions and lived experiences. This new arts-based research methodology is participatory in nature and gives voice to researchers and research participants. It creates possibilities for researcher’s reflexivity and participant’s agency.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Alsawayfa, Fadel

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword Allan Owens

Preface

Acknowledgements

About the Author

1 Personal and Professional Background Experience: The Road to Found Poetry 1 Personal Context 2 Professional Background Experience 3 Conclusion

2 Poetic Inquiry as Method and Methodology 1 Research Aims and Questions 2 Significance of the Research 3 Research Design 4 Research Design and Methodology 5 Conclusion

3 Presentation of Data 1 Presentation of Themes 2 Conclusion

4 Arts-Based Research: Paving the Way 1 Arts-Based Research 2 Found Poetry 3 Conclusion

5 Researcher’s Reflexivity and Participant’s Agency

6 Experimenting with Found Poetry in Doctoral Research

7 The Potential of Analyzing and Presenting People’s Perceptions and Lived Experiences through Found Poetry

8 Thoughts, Concerns, Limitations and Contribution to Knowledge 1 Thoughts on the Power of Drama 2 Thoughts on the Use of Found Poetry in/as Research 3 Limitations and Opportunities for Future Research 4 Contribution to Knowledge 5 Final Reflections 6 Conclusion

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Fadel Jobran-Alsawayfa is Assistant Professor of Education at Bethlehem University in Palestine. He is a pedagogue and a poet who teaches courses in drama in education, storytelling, theatre, play and creativity, as well as arts-based research and creativity in practice.