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.

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