Overview
- Breaks new ground in the study of how personal experiences can positively influence research
- Aims to inspire researchers globally to write more creatively
- Proposes 'detours' as an untapped source of analytic insight
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Creativity and Culture (PASCC)
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This book presents a variety of narratives on key elements of academic work, from data analysis, writing practices and engagement with the field. The authors discuss how elements of academic work and life – usually edited out of traditional research papers – can elicit important analytical insight. The book reveals how the unplanned, accidental and even obstructive events that often occur in research life, the ‘detours’, can potentially glean important results.
The authors introduce the process of ‘writing-sharing-reading-writing’ as a way to expand the playground of research and inspire a culture in which ‘accountable’ research methodologies involve adventurousness and an element of uncertainty. Written by scholars from a range of different fields, academic levels and geographic locations, this unique book will offer significant insight to those from a range of academic fields.
The authors introduce the process of ‘writing-sharing-reading-writing’ as a way to expand the playground of research and inspire a culture in which ‘accountable’ research methodologies involve adventurousness and an element of uncertainty. Written by scholars from a range of different fields, academic levels and geographic locations, this unique book will offer significant insight to those from a range of academic fields.
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Table of contents (19 chapters)
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Different Vantage Points, New Insights
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Research Life: Life and Research
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How We Know: Making Sense of Methods and Field Work
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Coping with Complexity: Writing to Understand What We Do
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Charlotte Wegener is Associate Professor in the Department of Communication and Psychology at Aalborg University, Denmark. Her work concerns innovation with a specific focus on education, workplace learning and research methodology. She is co-author of The Open Book: Stories of Academic Life and Writing or Where We Know Things.
Ninna Meier is Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology and Social Work at Aalborg University, Denmark, where she teaches and supervises students in organisational sociology. With Charlotte Wegener, she is developing Open Writing and resonance conceptually and as a field of research.
Elina Maslo is an Assistant Professor in the Danish School of Education at Aarhus University, Denmark, where she teaches second language learning, as well as within the Masters Programme for teachers of Danish as a second and foreign language. Her main research interests are learning spaces — multiple, diverse, changing, fluid, complex, always in construction – in and outside the school, and at the workplace.
Ninna Meier is Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology and Social Work at Aalborg University, Denmark, where she teaches and supervises students in organisational sociology. With Charlotte Wegener, she is developing Open Writing and resonance conceptually and as a field of research.
Elina Maslo is an Assistant Professor in the Danish School of Education at Aarhus University, Denmark, where she teaches second language learning, as well as within the Masters Programme for teachers of Danish as a second and foreign language. Her main research interests are learning spaces — multiple, diverse, changing, fluid, complex, always in construction – in and outside the school, and at the workplace.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Cultivating Creativity in Methodology and Research
Book Subtitle: In Praise of Detours
Editors: Charlotte Wegener, Ninna Meier, Elina Maslo
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Creativity and Culture
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-60216-5
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-60215-8Published: 10 November 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-86808-0Published: 24 June 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-60216-5Published: 27 October 2017
Series ISSN: 2755-4503
Series E-ISSN: 2755-4511
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 244
Number of Illustrations: 9 b/w illustrations, 10 illustrations in colour
Topics: Research Methodology, Personality and Social Psychology, Cross Cultural Psychology, Philosophy of Mind