Poetry, Method and Education Research Doing Critical, Decolonising and Political Inquiry

Poetry can be both political and pedagogical. It is utilised in a variety of ways in research to enhance, critique, analyse, and express different voices.

Poetry, Method and Education Research brings together international scholars to explore issues as diverse as neoliberalism, culture, decolonising education, health, and teacher identities. A key strength of the book is its attention to poetry as a research method, including discussions of "how to" engage with poetry in research, as well as including a range of research poems. Poetry is thus framed as both a method and performance. Authors in this book address a wide variety of questions from different perspectives including how to use poetry to think about complex issues in education, where poetry belongs in a research project, how to write poetry to generate and analyse "data", and how poetry can represent these findings.

This book is an essential resource for students and researchers in education programmes, and those who teach in graduate research methods courses.

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

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.