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Record Nr.

UNINA9910299503703321

Autore

Crimmins Gail

Titolo

Theatricalising Narrative Research on Women Casual Academics / / by Gail Crimmins

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2018

ISBN

9783319715629

3319715623

9783319715612

Edizione

[1st ed. 2018.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XIX, 118 p. 11 illus., 9 illus. in color.)

Collana

Palgrave Studies in Gender and Education, , 2524-6453

Disciplina

792

Soggetti

Education - Research

Education, Higher

Sex

Actors

Research Methods in Education

Higher Education

Gender Studies

Performers and Practitioners

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Nota di contenuto

Chapter 1. The Silence of Women Casual Academics in Australian Universities -- Chapter 2. The Limitations of Traditional Academic Conventions and an Embrace of Imagistic Communication Orienting my map to north -- Chapter 3. The Philosophical, Ethical and Political Considerations Involved in Theatricalising Data -- Chapter 4. The Plays the Thing Wherein I'll Capture the Consciousness of an Audience -- Chapter 5. A Personal Process of Restorying Lived Experience into a Proto-Verbatim Performance -- Chapter 6. A re-view of the process and impact of theatricalising narrative research on women casual academics.

Sommario/riassunto

‘Arts based research at its best: Provocative, political, potent! Through artful provocations Gail Crimmins skillfully engages narrative forms



that are at once scholarly, playful, expressive and alternative as they offer important reconsiderations not only for women, but for all scholars pushing the boundaries of the academy.’ —Rita Irwin, University of British Columbia, Canada This book presents the research journey involved in sensitively unearthing and re-presenting the lived experience of women casual academics. The author weaves the as yet unvoiced stories of women casual academics with a reflective account of a narrative inquiry process. In doing so, she both critiques and offers an alternative to masculine and traditional academic discourse, and demonstrates the power of imagistic and theatrical communication. The book situates the felt human and post-human experience/s of narrative research alongside the philosophical and theoretical research practices encountered in an arts-informed narrative research project. Thus, the author establishes valuable frameworks for planning, undertaking and evaluating arts-informed narrative research; a growing and vibrant area of education research. This innovative work will be of interest to feminist researchers, teachers and supervisors, as well as students and scholars of women casual academics. Gail Crimmins is Lecturer in Communication at the University of the Sunshine Coast, Australia. An experienced actor and director, her research explores and illuminates the lived experiences of women. She employs participatory research methods and re-presents her work through theatre, film and written prose.