Memory Mosaics: Researching Teacher Professional Learning Through Artful Memory-work Paperback / softback
Edited by Kathleen Pithouse-Morgan, Daisy Pillay, Claudia Mitchell
Part of the Studies in Arts-Based Educational Research series
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This book communicates new voices, insights, and possibilities for working with the arts and memory in researching teacher professional learning.
The book reveals how, through the arts, teacher-researchers can reimagine and reinvigorate moments of the past as embodied and empowering scholarly experiences.
The peer-reviewed chapters were composed from juxtaposing unique “mosaic” pieces written by 21 new and emerging scholars in South Africa and Canada.
Their research explores diverse arts-based practices and resources including collage, film, drawing, narrative, poetry, photography, storytelling and television alongside related ethical issues.
Critically, Memory Mosaics also demonstrates how artful memory-work can engender agency in professional learning with teacher-researchers taking up pressing issues of social justice such as inclusion and decolonisation.
Overall, the book offers a multidimensional, polyvocal exploration of how artful memory-work can bring about future-oriented professional learning enacted as pedagogies of reinvention and productive remembering. Memory Mosaics: Researching Teacher Professional Learning Through Artful Memory-Work, by Kathleen Pithouse-Morgan, Daisy Pillay, and Claudia Mitchell, along with teacher-researchers on two continents, is a ground-breaking book.
It models a collaborative approach to arts-based research that melds memory-work, visual and poetic arts, and reflective practice to promote professional learning, personal transformation, decolonisation, and a more just future.
Like colourful pebbles and bits of glass, the authors place teachers’ self-stories in relation to one another in an artful design, creating thematic coherence that evokes a deep sense of knowing.
Judith C. Lapadat, Professor Emeritus, Faculty of Education, University of Lethbridge, CanadaMemory Mosaics: Researching Teacher ProfessionalLearning Through Artful Memory-Workassembles exemplars of professional learning in an intriguing mosaic format.
A topic is introduced, followed by memory-pieces; then: discussion and/or creative response.
This lively juxtaposition generates momentum for highly productive forms of remembering around social justice issues, even as the reader is invited into an intimate circle of shared concern: for these issues, with these (and other) teacher-researchers. It is a beautiful, original, and practical book. Teresa Strong-Wilson, Associate Professor, Faculty of Education, McGill University, Canada
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- Pages:196 pages, 29 Illustrations, black and white; XVII, 196 p. 29 illus.
- Publisher:Springer Nature Switzerland AG
- Publication Date:25/01/2019
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:196 pages, 29 Illustrations, black and white; XVII, 196 p. 29 illus.
- Publisher:Springer Nature Switzerland AG
- Publication Date:25/01/2019
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- ISBN:9783030073046