Poetry, Method and Education Research

Esther Fitzpatrick is a Senior Lecturer at The University of Auckland. Her current research includes critical arts-based methodologies to explore emerging in-between identities, culturally responsive practice, and the impact of neoliberal ideologies on academic identities. She has several publications employing creative methods in educational research. Katie Fitzpatrick is an Associate Professor at The University of Auckland. Her research focuses on health education, physical education, sexuality education, critical pedagogy, and critical ethnographic and poetic research methods. Katie has published numerous articles and book chapters, and six books in these areas, including an international award-winning book.

This book is terrific. It covers the wide-ranging power of poetic inquiry across disciplines and continents. Bringing together in one place a collection of creative and diverse ways of writing poetry as a method of inquiry. I am in awe!Laurel Richardson, Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Ohio State UniversityThis book offers an exciting approach to critical and decolonizing methods in education research. Poetry is often the super-power that can reach and engage learners in ways that connect their feelings and thoughts, their bodies and experiences, their dreams and voices. In the hands of critical educators and researchers it can open up new possibilities and insights. The authors in this book approach this super power with respect, awareness and hopefulness. Professor Linda Tuhiwai Smith, The University of WaikatoPushes the fields of poetic inquiry and education forward, beautifully documenting how poetry may be used to subvert dominant ideologies and collaborate with indigenous partners. Every researcher and creative writer should have this on their bookshelf - makes a wonderful addition to courses that deal with pedagogy, education, methodology, and social justice."Patricia Leavy, Ph.D., author of Method Meets Art and SparkAn extraordinary and important book. This is a text that sings to the reader. Its poetry, and its writing about poetry, lifts us, transports us; and it calls us, too, to see poetry's capacity for subversion and resistance. It makes us want to write poetry, and to bring poetry into our inquiries. What a gift.Professor Jonathan Wyatt, The University of Edinburgh, UKReading this collection of poetic, personal, and inspiring essays reminds us why creating space for poetry and imagination in the academy is vital. The editors have gathered authors from around the world that breathe life into research, lean on uncertainty, and challenge the status quo in beautiful, convincing ways. A must read for educators and researchers in all fields!Professor George Belliveau, University of British Columbia, Canada

• Foreword 1. What Poetry Does for Us in Education and Research; Section 1: Poetry and Poetic Methodologies 2. Poetic Inquiry 3. Poetic Representations, Not-Quite-Poetry and Poemish: Some Methodological Reflections 4. Education and/As Art: A Found Poetry Suite 5. Sensible Poets and The Poetic Sensibility: Mitigating Neoliberal/Audit Culture in Education Through Arts-Based Research; Section 2: Poetry, Politics, and Educational Issues 6. Poetry and Cancer: Six Ruminations 7. Writing the University Through Poetry: The Pleasure of Scholarship Against the Spike of Neoliberalism 8. My Middle-Aged Rage Burns the Template in Front of The Provost’s Office After the Assessment Meeting 9. Community and Belonging: An International Student’s Journey in North America 10. The Munchkin and The Medicine Man: Poetry’s Place in A "Hard" World 11. Becoming a First-Time Mother as An International Graduate Student: A Poetic Ethnography; Section 3: Decolonising Education and Indigenous Poetry 12. Cultivating Resonant Images Through Poetic Meditation: A De/Colonial Approach to Educational Research 13. Making the Invisible Visible: Poetic Explorations of a Cross-Cultural Researcher 14. The Tukutuku Panel Is Never Bare: Weaving Bicultural Relationships Through Poetic Performances 15. Traversing Pacific Indigenous Identities in Aotearoa: Blood, Ink, Lives; Section 4: Poetry and Critical Pedagogical Research 16. Why I Use a Poem in Every Single Classroom 17. Re/Turning the World into Poetry [An Alternative Education Portfolio] 18. Creasing and Folding Language in Dance Education Research 19. Poetry Drops a Plumbline Into Meaning: Findings from An Inquiry into Teacher Creativity 20. Memory, Poetry, Art, and Children: Understanding the Past from The Present