Breaking silences, an inquiry into identity and the creative research process.
Published: 2005
Language: eng
Number of pages: 228
Subjects: Fiction -- Technique.; Research.; Identity (Psychology).
Description: Breaking Silences, an inquiry into identity and the creative research process, has two major sections: Part I, Jackytar , an educational novel, and Part II, a section on The Creative Research Journey. Universities and funding agencies are becoming increasingly responsive to demands that research be more relevant, community centred, and accessible to society at large (A. Cole, 2002). I view 'research' as creative and reflective endeavours to better understand culture, and include mature students, teacher candidates, teachers, administrators, and academics, or anyone else who might like to read this thesis and perhaps undertake a similar project, as potential educational researchers. Thus, the first section,  Jackytar, responds to a need in education to address diversity though examination of intersectional identity (Brown, Mir, & Warner, 1996; Coelho, 1994; Parsons & Brown, 2001; Wallace, 2000); through the lens of sexuality, I examine the intertwining identity markers of race, class, gender, sexual orientation, geographical location, ablebodiness, and language and culture. In Jackytar, the protagonist, Alex Murphy, returns home to rural Newfoundland, where confrontations with issues and people from his past serve as a platform for this inquiry. The work is entirely fictional. None of the characters are intended to resemble actual persons. The second section sheds light on the creative research process for educational researchers (Barone, 1995; Eisner, 1997; Fordon, 2000; Sheppard & Hartman, 1989). This research is funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, 2003--2004.
Notes: Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Toronto, 2005.

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Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 66-06, Section: A, page: 2085.