Centre for Qualitative Research : Masterclasses 2007
Masterclass 3: New and Novel Methods for Transformative Learning:
evocative portrayal in research and teaching
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Peter Willis, University of South Australia; Sally Borbasi, Griffith University, Queensland, Australia 7th & 8th June 2007 |
One of the great challenges to practice-relevant educators is how to promote a kind of learning that draws on the personal and professional imagination in rich and useful ways. This masterclass will pursue two resources for this endeavour: the kind of research that communicates its findings in evocatively expressive ways, and the pedagogic potential of story-telling based in one's own and other's lives. In day 1, participants will be guided through a process in which stories from one's personal, social and workplace life are expressed in generative ways that could inform the insight and learning of others. In day 2, the presenters will introduce more explicitly the perspectives and methodologies of mythopoetic approaches to educational curricula. Mythopoetic education will be presented as a 'family' of evocative methods that centre on a particular epistemological perspective and rationale. Within this perspective, 'knowing' is considered to be mediated largely through images rather than directly through concepts or traditional forms of rationalism. Using excerpts from well-known films, participants will be guided through an imaginative process by which responses and insights are transformed into their implications for education and action. The overall aim of the masterclass is to enable participants to understand and apply the pedagogic power of the mythopoetically-informed curriculum
Peter Willis
Peter Willis is senior lecturer in education at the University of South Australia
specialising in the education and training of adults. Before his academic career,
He worked firstly as a religious missionary priest and then an adult educator
in community development and cultural awareness education with Aboriginal and
non-Aboriginal people in the outback Kimberley area of North Western Australia
and in Central Australia. His recent book: Patrons and Riders: Conflicting roles
and hidden objectives in an Aboriginal Development program (Post Pressed) is
a critical reflection on the relationship between missionaries and Aboriginal
people in the Kimberleys.
He has been active in the Adult Education movement in Australia for more than twenty years and has spent several years on the national and state executives of the Australian Association for Adult Education now known as Adult Learning Australia.
Currently, his main research areas concern transformative and 'second chance' learning among adults, the learning in healing and the relationship between religion, spirituality, aesthetic life and civil societ. He pioneered the use of phenomenological approaches in arts based research in his recent publications: Inviting Learning: an exhibition of risk and enrichment in Adult Education practice (NIACE), and an edited collection entitled Being, seeking, telling: Expressive approaches to qualitative adult education (Post Pressed).
Recent edited publications are: Lifelong learning and the democratic imagination (with Carden) and Towards re-enchantment: Education, imagination and the getting of wisdom (with Heywood, McCann and Neville). He is currently working with Tim Leonard on an edited book entitled, Pedagogies of the Imagination: Mythopoetic curriculum in educational practice.
Sally Borbasi
Sally Borbasi RN, PhD is Professor of Nursing in the School of Nursing and Midwifery,
Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia. She is a long standing nursing academic
and qualitative researcher with a particular interest in the phenomenologies.
Her PhD focussed on the lived experience of clinical nurse specialists in the
Australian health care sector and was influenced by the scholarship of people
such as Michael Crotty, Peter Willis & Max van Manen - all of whom she met
in the mid nineties at a qualitative research conference in Gippsland, Victoria.
Sally has a background in acute care nursing and since then has carried out
a number of studies exploring the qualitative dimensions of health and illness.
Sally is co-author of the book Navigating the Maze of Nursing Research with
a 2nd edition due in 2008 and is on the editorial board of the Indo-Pacific
Journal of Phenomenology. Sally also reviews for a number of nursing research
journals. She is well known in nursing circles in Australia, is widely published
on a range of nursing related subjects and recently spent time as Visiting Scholar
at University College of Bergen in Norway where she was sought for her ability
to instruct in the use of EBP and its implications for practice. Over the years,
Sally has been involved in the phenomenological work of Peter Willis in education
and brings to it a health perspective which they have presented at a number
of differing research fora.
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Centre for Qualitative Research, Bournemouth University,
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