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Qualitative Inquiry, Vol. 14, No. 1, 67-89 (2008)
DOI: 10.1177/1077800407304509
© 2008 SAGE Publications

A/r/tography as an Ethics of Embodiment

Visual Journals in Preservice Education

Lisa La Jevic

Pennsylvania State University, University Park, lml150{at}psu.edu

Stephanie Springgay

Pennsylvania State University, University Park

A/r/tography is an arts-based research methodology that inquires into educational phenomenon through artistic and aesthetic means. A/r/tographical research engages in pedagogical inquiry where the distinctions between researcher and researched become complicated, responsive, and undone. A/r/tography, the authors argue, develops the relationship between embodiment and ethics as a being-with. In this manner, ethics does not refer to the rationalist acquisition of knowledge or moral codes that advocate particular bodily behaviors but instead suggests that participating in a network of relations lends itself to gestures of non-violence. This article extends previous writings on a/r/tographical inquiry through a particular examination of the use of visual journals in a preservice teacher education course. Through the intertextuality of image and word, visual journals enable teachers and students to make meaning and inquire creatively into educational issues in a space that respects self and other.

Key Words: a/r/tography • ethics • embodiment • arts education • visual journals • teacher education


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