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Narrating Teachers’ Professional Development : Arts-Based Creative Expression in Educational Research

Year of publication

2024

Authors

Martin, Anne; Kostiainen, Emma

Abstract

This chapter narrates two teacher educators’ journeys into arts-based narrative research. We explore utilising creative expression in the different phases of narrative research and introduce five research projects that use (written or visual) creative expression in (1) data collection, (2) data analysis, and (3) result presentation and the communication of the study to the audience. While mirroring the previous literature, we discuss our experiences of incorporating creative expression in narrative research. Our research focuses on the professional development of pre- and in-service teachers, and our experience is recounted through creative processes. Further, we emphasise the unique voices and experiences of pre- and in-service teachers, as well as our own researcher voices. By narrating our own journeys verbally and visually, we adopt the position of storyteller researchers. Based on previous literature and our own research, we aim to offer examples of intertwining creative expression with narrative research. We suggest that arts-based methods can help us deepen our understanding of the studied phenomena and communicate our research findings in an evocative style that can be more easily approached than traditional academic texts.
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Organizations and authors

University of Jyväskylä

Martin Anne Orcid -palvelun logo

Kostiainen Emma Orcid -palvelun logo

Publication type

Publication format

Article

Parent publication type

Compilation

Article type

Other article

Audience

Scientific

Peer-reviewed

Peer-Reviewed

MINEDU's publication type classification code

A3 Book section, Chapters in research books

Publication channel information

Parent publication editors

Hyry-Beihammer, Eeva Kaisa; Ylitapio-Mäntylä, Outi; Uitto, Minna

Publisher

Springer

Pages

137-157

​Publication forum

5952

​Publication forum level

2

Open access

Open access in the publisher’s service

No

Self-archived

Yes

Other information

Fields of science

Educational sciences

Keywords

[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Publication country

Switzerland

Internationality of the publisher

International

Language

English

International co-publication

No

Co-publication with a company

No

DOI

10.1007/978-3-031-68350-3_9

The publication is included in the Ministry of Education and Culture’s Publication data collection

Yes