Shattered images: Understanding expectations and realities of field experiences

In this paper we explore the phenomenon of "shattered images" in the learning to teach process. For our presentation and discussion we draw on: reflective accounts of preservice teachers written prior to, during, and following periods of field experience; our experiences as teachers and teacher educators; and, on our own and other research on teacher education and development, particularly on our ongoing work which focuses on field experiences. We highlight and examine some of the discrepancies between preservice teachers' expectations and experiences, identify and discuss circumstances contributing to the discrepancies, and consider ways in which such inconsistencies might be taken into account in order to develop and maintain productive preservice teacher preparation programs.Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/30560/1/0000193.pd

Arts-informed research for public education: The alzheimer’s project, Canadian Association for the Study of Adult Education – Online Proceedings

We take seriously the challenge of the conference theme to "think about policies and practices that chart the course for our contemporary learning society." We respond to this challenge with an invitation to join us in an imaginary tour of a seven-part multi-media exhibit of our research, "The Alzheimer's Project", 1 displayed in a prominent public historic site in Halifax, Nova Scotia. In this venue and through our work we articulate and demonstrate a methodology that has a central agenda of making social science research accessible to audiences beyond the academy. We introduce community centred arts-informed research as the methodology that drives our research purposes of public education and community development and supports our commitment to the preservation and advancement of human dignity in the contexts of research and health care education

Handbook of the arts in qualitative research : perspectives, methodologies, examples, and issues

"The Handbook of the Arts in Qualitative Inquiry: Perspectives, Methodologies, Examples, and Issues represents an unfolding and expanding orientation to qualitative social science research that draws inspiration, concepts, processes, and representational forms from the arts. In this defining work, J. Gary Knowles and Ardra L. Cole bring together the top scholars in qualitative methods to provide a comprehensive overview of the past, present, and future of arts-based research. This Handbook provides an accessible and stimulating collection of theoretical arguments and illustrative examples that delineate the role of the arts in qualitative social science research."--Publisher's website

Hanging on and flying

This chapter is written, first, from the point of view and in the voice of the doctoral candidate, Susanne and second, from the point of view and in the voice of the supervisor, Bronwyn. We each discuss the genesis and production of Susanne's arts-informed thesis and we analyze the nature of our pedagogical relationship, which developed in the process of working together