Ricketts (2011)

Author

Ricketts, K.

Year

2011

Title

The suitcase, the map, and the compass: An expedition into embodied poetic narrative and its application toward fostering optimal learning spaces

University

Simon Fraser University

Discipline (uncoded)

Education

Macrostructure

Topic-Based

Proposed Area of Unconventionality
(Tardy, 2016)

Modality, Linguistic and Textual form

Description and other notes

Addresses the readers and provides an orientation in the preface. Draws on different forms of writing, poetry, and photos to enact the main argument and contribution the dissertation seeks to make.

(Proposed) Degree of separation or connection between atypical or unconventional component(s) and conventional or written component(s)

Connected. Atypical or unconventional components are positioned as inextricable from the written or conventional components.

(Proposed) Type of relationship construed between atypical or unconventional component(s) and conventional or written component(s)

Intermingled. There is a sense of exchange between the atypical or unconventional aspects of the dissertation and its more conventional components.

Notes/Reasoning

The manner in which the dissertation is presented/written enacts or reinforces the contribution Ricketts is making, which is a “teaching and performing tool” Ricketts refers to as “Embodied Poetic Narrative” (p. 1). Ricketts describes this approach as “a triangulation of the body, the story, and the object through creative and shared play as a way to surface new understandings of self and other” (P. 1). Also: “By moving away from text-centred processes through an immediacy and viscerality, we build dynamic spaces fostering the possibility to access the immediacy of our first, most creative impulses. I posit that a body in movement unlocks and unfolds secrets, lost thoughts and treasured images and an increased heart rate and rapid breath provoke an availability to the imagination and further, to creative exploration of self and to broadened and deeper understandings of other” (p. 2).

Discipline 2 (coded)

Education

Discipline Grouping (coded)

ED

Source

General database search