Faces and Spaces and Doing Research

Vanishing Point - or Meeting in the Middle? Student/Supervisor Transformation in a Self-Study Thesis

“…I could not find any self--study projects that focused exclusively on integrated arts. In most cases aspects related to the arts such as drama, drawing, photography or collage were adopted as an integral and essential part of the study (Griffiths et al, 2009;Hamilton & Pinegar, 2009;Mitchell et al, 2009;Naidoo, 2005;Tidwell & Manke, 2009).…”

Object-ive Self-Study of Administrative Work

“…In self-study, researchers have used visuals in multiple ways, as the data within a study, and as the impetus of the analysis process, as well as findings where the visual represents the meaning derived from the analysis of data. Some examples of visual representation in self-study include the use of drawings (e.g., Griffiths, Malcolm, & Williamson, 2009;Raphael, Hannigan, & White, 2016;Tidwell & Manke, 2009), and the use of objects (Dhlula-Moruri, Kortjass, Ndaleni, & Pithouse-Morgan, 2017). Tidwell and Manke (2009) describe the use of drawn nodal moments as providing that personal context within professional engagement that highlights the meaning behind practice.…”