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This highly original collection presents speculative fiction as
fiction-based research to re-imagine education in the future. Given
the particular convergence of economic and governmental pressures
in educational institutions today, schools represent imaginative
sites especially well-suited to interrogation through an SF lens.
The relevance for education of the exploration and interrogation of
themes related to technology, human nature, and social organization
is evident; yet the speculative fiction approach is unique in its
harnessing of creative capacities to envision alternatives. The
contributions in this collection are generated from educational
experience and research, drawing on scholarship in curriculum
studies and teacher education and on the authors' experiences and
imaginations as teachers, teacher educators, educational scholars,
and human beings.
"Creating Together" explores an emerging approach to research
that combines arts practices and scholarship in participatory,
community-based, and collaborative contexts in Canada across
multiple disciplines. Looking at a variety of art forms, from
photography and mural painting to performance art and poetry, the
contributors explore how the process of creating together generates
and disseminates collective knowledge.
The artistic processes and works in an arts-based approach to
scholarship make use of aesthetic, experiential, embodied, and
emotional ways of knowing and creating knowledge in addition to
traditional intellectual ways. The anthology also addresses the
growing trend in arts-based research that takes a participatory,
community-based, or collaborative focus, and encourages scholars to
work together, with other professionals, and with community groups
to explore questions, create knowledge, and express shared
understandings. The collection highlights three forms of research:
participatory arts-based research that engages participants in all
stages of the inquiry and aims to produce practical knowing to
benefit the community; community-based arts research that has
community/public space at the heart of practice; and collaborative
arts approaches involving multi-levelled, multi-layered, and
interdisciplinary collaboration from diverse perspectives.
To illustrate how such innovative work is being accomplished in
Canada, the collection includes examples from British Columbia to
Newfoundland and across disciplines, including the fine arts,
education, the health sciences, and social work.
"Fables of Psyche" is dedicated to readers who believe journeys are
important and are willing to take fantasy tours into self and
beyond. Travel to far away places with Realia, Dea, Lexus, the
Visionaries, Thinkerthoughts and with your own imagination. The
style of writing is a hearty blend of prose, poetry, haibun, and
imaginary words. A reading experience of pure literary license for
your enjoyment.
This reflective practice case study completed for my master's
degree involved creating and delivering a unit for inner-city high
school students integrating drama and media literacy/production
with a focus on advertising. It used socially critical or issues-
based drama to examine the relationship between youth and media
advertising, to draw out and question their
meanings/understandings, towards finding appropriate ways of
teaching media studies. Analysis of students' responses to the work
and the media messages they created saw these young people as
sophisticated readers of advertisements who made meanings that
spoke to their needs, desires and life experiences. The study
forced a re-evaluation of the critical perspective brought to the
teaching, which led to a more pluralistic stance that allowed the
intersection of public and private realms of knowing and the
acknowledgement of students' desiring identities. In representing
the research data the study took an alternative arts-based approach
by depicting significant teaching/learning moments through scripted
scenes.
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