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Poetic Inquiry II – Seeing, Caring, Understanding

Using Poetry as and for Inquiry

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Editors:
  1. Kathleen T. Galvin

    1. University of Hull, UK

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  2. Monica Prendergast

    1. University of Victoria, Canada

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  • This collection shares work that presents fresh ideas to researchers interested in bringing their work more (art)fully into the public sphere, beyond academia, and offers a challenge to conventional qualitative research approaches by insisting that human research has embodied, affective and aesthetic components that need to be understood and valued
  • A new international text on the use of poetry in the social sciences that transcends conventional methodological and disciplinary boundaries
  • An exploration of poetry for and as enquiry bringing forward illustrations of a convergence between epistemology, research methods and poetry

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Table of contents (23 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xviii
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  2. Seeing

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Seeing with an Unconscious Eye

      • Alexandra Fidyk
      Pages 3-20

    3. Lean in as the Story is Told

      • Christi Kramer
      Pages 21-40

    4. A/R/T(Herapist)-Ography

      • Kate Evans
      Pages 41-50

    5. The Unpredictability of Bliss

      • Carl Leggo
      Pages 51-69

    6. Joys and Dilemmas

      • Mary Lou Soutar-Hynes
      Pages 71-79

    7. Embodied Poetics in Mother Poetry

      • Sandra L. Faulkner, Cynthia Nicole
      Pages 81-97

    8. Resonance and Aesthetics

      • Lorri Neilsen Glenn
      Pages 99-103

  3. Understanding

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 105-105
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    2. Poetics in a Capacious Landscape

      • Collette Quinn-Hall
      Pages 107-133

    3. White Skin, Brown Soul

      • Jacquie Kidd
      Pages 135-140

    4. Poems Written in Service of “Service”

      • Jane Piirto
      Pages 141-154

    5. Finding Grandma

      • John J. Guiney Yallop
      Pages 155-168

    6. The Use of I Poems to Better Understand Complex Subjectivities

      • Lori E. Koelsch
      Pages 169-179

    7. What is Good for the Poem is Good for the Poet

      • Sean Wiebe
      Pages 181-190

    8. Geopoetics

      • Suzanne M. Thomas
      Pages 191-201

  4. Caring

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 203-203
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    2. Wa King Up Following Breast Surgery

      • Fran Biley
      Pages 205-210

    3. Making the Case for Poetic Inquiry in Health Services Research

      • Frances Rapport, Graham Hartill
      Pages 211-226
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About this book

This volume offers a novel collection of international works on the use of poetry in inquiry that transcends conventional disciplinary boundaries. The aim is to illustrate an ‘aesthetic move’ in social sciences and in particular in health and in education. The collection builds a bridge between the Arts and Health and Education by offering innovative exemplars of use of poetry in social science research and in the context of the many varied disciplinary contexts. An exploration of poetry within an international interdisciplinary collection in the context of education, research inquiry and health and social care with university-affiliated authors is offered. Writers include literary poets, academics and researchers in the arts, the humanities, and human and social sciences: an unusual interdisciplinary community. Authors contribute work illustrating how they are finding varied approaches to make use of the resonant power of words through poetry in their investigations. Writers’ aims span new ways to help readers resonate and connect with findings; new ways of revealing deep understandings of human experience; new ways of being in dialogue with research findings and new ways of working with people in vulnerable situations to name ‘what it is like’. As such, the collection offers examples of the foremost ways seen in the literature for poetry to appear in education, health and caring sciences, anthropology, sociology, psychology, social work and related fields.


Most qualitative research texts focus on one discipline; this text will be relevant for many postsecondary programs and courses including in education, health sciences, arts and humanities and social sciences.
      

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Hull, UK

    Kathleen T. Galvin

  • University of Victoria, Canada

    Monica Prendergast

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Poetic Inquiry II – Seeing, Caring, Understanding

  • Book Subtitle: Using Poetry as and for Inquiry

  • Editors: Kathleen T. Galvin, Monica Prendergast

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-316-2

  • Publisher: SensePublishers Rotterdam

  • eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)

  • Copyright Information: SensePublishers-Rotterdam, The Netherlands 2016

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-6300-316-2Published: 17 December 2015

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVIII, 328

  • Topics: Education, general

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