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Leanne Weber, Jarrett Blaustein, Kathryn Benier, Rebecca Wickes and Diana Johns
Peter R. Wright and Peter M. Wakholi
– The purpose this paper is to consider festivals as sites for inquiry and learning.
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Purpose
The purpose this paper is to consider festivals as sites for inquiry and learning.
Design/methodology/approach
The research employed a pluralistic approach to the inquiry drawing on critical African-centred pedagogy, participatory action research, and performance as research inquiry. These arts-based research methods allowed insights to be gained in ways that were congruent to the arts and participants who enacted them. In total, 12 young people and six elders of diverse African heritage as well as two artists were participants in the research.
Findings
The research revealed that the festival as a research methodology was both dialogic and performative and a rich site for the exploration of identity negotiation. Through these arts-based approaches the aesthetic elements often missed by traditional social science methods were highlighted as key in exploring acculturation socialistaion experiences and deconstructing exclusionist discourses emanating from the dominant culture.
Research limitations/implications
The research affirmed the power of multi-modal approaches to research and the importance of evocative discourses in identity exploration and development.
Originality/value
This research is the first known attempt to theorise an arts-based festival as a research approach in reference to enculturation and cultural memory.
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The purpose of this paper is to investigate the possibilities of performative research practices in the dissemination of social science research. The paper introduces the benefits…
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Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to investigate the possibilities of performative research practices in the dissemination of social science research. The paper introduces the benefits of these practices and demonstrates the relational benefits of sound. The paper explores the possibility that sound may be used to reposition the listener to a new way of hearing.
Design/methodology/approach
This research emerged from a larger research project investigating the silent racism that was evident in an inclusive education program. A constructivist narrative approach was adopted to investigate the benefits of sharing the sensorial qualities of participant responses as an aural excerpt. The aim here is to reposition the listener from their own cultural value systems to being open to new understandings.
Findings
The paper highlights the relationship between the storyteller and the listener. Sharing a young man’s personal experience of racism enabled the visceral and affective quality of his deeply personal experience to be conveyed to the listener.
Research limitations/implications
This paper reports on the experiences of one participant. It is not designed to represent the experiences of all young people with African heritage, but rather to present the possibilities of using sound in the dissemination of research findings.
Originality/value
The methodological approach of this paper offers a unique and valuable contribution to the growing interest in new avenues to disseminate research findings, particularly those that convey the deeply personal experience of participants.
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Leanne Weber, Jarrett Blaustein, Kathryn Benier, Rebecca Wickes and Diana Johns
Leanne Weber, Jarrett Blaustein, Kathryn Benier, Rebecca Wickes and Diana Johns
Leanne Weber, Jarrett Blaustein, Kathryn Benier, Rebecca Wickes and Diana Johns
Leanne Weber, Jarrett Blaustein, Kathryn Benier, Rebecca Wickes and Diana Johns
Leanne Weber, Jarrett Blaustein, Kathryn Benier, Rebecca Wickes and Diana Johns
Leanne Weber, Jarrett Blaustein, Kathryn Benier, Rebecca Wickes and Diana Johns