Collage Portraits as a Method of Analysis in Qualitative Research

Gerstenblatt, Paula

doi:10.1177/160940691301200114

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“…The collages were used to open up a dialogue amongst diverse individuals (Diaz, ) and to break down the potential for social injustices and inequalities embedded in the status quo (Bagley & Castro‐Salazar, ). This approach allowed an extended range of voices, including the otherwise marginalised (Gerstenblatt, ), to contribute to our understanding of leadership. We were aware of the potential for social desirability bias in this approach, where participants’ authentic responses are limited by a consideration of what response will be more acceptable to the group (Holgraves, ) or cause the participant least embarrassment (Kaminska & Foulsham, ).…”

Section: Collage Within the Arts‐based Research Fieldmentioning

confidence: 99%

Theorising the value of collage in exploring educational leadership

Roberts

Woods

2018

British Educational Res J

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This article contributes to theorising the value of collage as a methodological approach. It begins with a discussion of the methodological difficulties of exploring hidden meanings and individual experience through the research process. The illuminative potential of arts-based methodologies in qualitative research is then investigated. The article makes the case for the specific advantages of using collage to explore the experience of leadership, through a discussion of two collage-based studies. It proposes a variant of the 'think aloud' process, used in conjunction with collage, as a route to producing deep understandings of the multiple ways in which leadership is experienced and understood as a social process. The argument is made that collage enables the accessing and sharing of profound levels of experience not accessible through words alone, and considers the impact of the physicality of collage on its potential to release these profound insights. A five-stage process for the analysis of collage is then set out. The article concludes by offering a theory of the value of collage as a methodological approach to exploring experiences of leadership, through use of the concepts of physicality, wholeness and participant agency.

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Section: Collage Within the Arts‐based Research Fieldmentioning

confidence: 99%

Theorising the value of collage in exploring educational leadership

Roberts

Woods

2018

British Educational Res J

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“…Spare words in free space carry the weight of essences, even those best expressed with silence (Leavy, 2009). Images also evoke meaning and feelings not available in written transcripts (Gerstenblatt, 2013). In this case, the combination of images and poetry in collage serve to strike at a different emotional and intellectual level.…”

Section: Arts-based Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The text poems were words coming out of a crisis of practice. Months later, as part of another project, Paula was encouraged to create collages using the text poems as a form for analyzing the poetry (Gerstenblatt, 2013). "By the time I started doing the collages, I could show the poems to someone.…”

Section: Spaces In-between: Text Poems From Communitymentioning

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Spaces In-between: Text Poems from Community Practice and Research

Gerstenblatt

Rhodes

Holst

2018

Art/Research International

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A commitment on the part of the academy to address social issues has increased over the past three decades, resulting in service learning courses, volunteering opportunities, and community-university partnerships. Faculty, staff, and community practitioners collaborating to lead these efforts often carry enormous responsibility and answer to often competing interests of students, community members, and universities. Using the experience of an scholar/artist/teacher in a university-community partnership founded by the first author in a racially polarized town, this article explores the potential of arts-based methods, specifically poetry and collage, to mitigate the consequence of this work. The format is a dialogue between two engaged teacher/researcher/practitioners and friends to clarify the hidden experience of the researcher with narrative truth to articulate and share not only experiences, but also lessons learned as a contribution to our fellow teacher/researcher/practitioners.

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“…Gerstenblatt (2013) states that the researcher must find the balance between the piece that has been created to represent the data and the voices that the data represents. What was different in this exercise is that the collage was created by the participants and not by the researcher.…”

Section: Methodsmentioning

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Rethinking my poetry pedagogy: An Autoethnographic self-study

Campbell

2016

SAJIE

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In the English discipline within the university where I am a teacher educator of English, I am in the habit of keeping a reflective journal in which I record my observations of my pedagogic practice. In addition, I require that students write post-lecture evaluations on completion of a series of lectures. This autoethnographic self-study examines a collaborative exercise in which the students and I jointly analysed student evaluations as well as my lecture reflections in order to establish the efficacy of a series of poetry lectures and to recommend where I can improve in my practice. Pre-service teacher educators should model good teaching practices and I have always held the belief that my teaching methodology is constructivist and that in the process I am being reflexive and modeling good practice. However, the intended message is not always that which is received in the way anticipated by the lecturer which is what precipitated this study.Whilst reflective practice has been beneficial in my development as a lecturer, I suspected that working collaboratively with the students, in analysing their post-lecture evaluations and my reflections would be of benefit to both parties. This autoethnographic self-study highlights the importance of analyzing lecture reflections along with student evaluations, and with the students themselves and reports on how, when implemented, the suggested changes improved pedagogic practice.

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Collage Portraits as a Method of Analysis in Qualitative Research

Cited by 69 publications

References 19 publications

Theorising the value of collage in exploring educational leadership

Theorising the value of collage in exploring educational leadership

Spaces In-between: Text Poems from Community Practice and Research

Rethinking my poetry pedagogy: An Autoethnographic self-study

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