@misc { , title = {Choosing My Own Adventures: A Short Story of My Doctoral Journey}, abstract = {In my doctoral research, I studied my professional learning in action by teaching three graduate teacher education courses at a South African university. I took a narrative self-study stance toward research and pedagogy to explore my lived experience as a novice teacher educator. In this chapter, I present a short story of my doctoral journey and my consequent academic path. I describe how I played with visual and language arts-based approaches to develop alternative forms of data representation in my doctoral thesis. And I highlight how my doctoral research supervisor’s support was integral to my arts-based research explorations. Then, I illustrate how, as an outgrowth of my doctoral study, I have cultivated a substantive portfolio of scholarship that engages the power of poetic inquiry as a literary arts-based mode for researching and performing professional learning. To close, I consider the implications of my story. As a doctoral supervisor now myself, I am heedful of the possible longstanding impact of my responses to my students’ work. For other supervisors, I offer my story as an exemplar of the value of nourishing students’ creativity in their doctoral research adventures.}, doi = {10.1163/9789004444287\_003}, isbn = {9789004396371}, note = {hardback isbn The staff member to whom the output is attributed was not employed on a Category A eligible contract by a UK HEI (defined in paragraphs 52 to 63) at the time of submission for publication.}, pages = {27-35}, publicationstatus = {Published}, publisher = {Brill Academic Publishers}, url = {https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/9898143}, keyword = {Centre for Research in Arts, Creativity and Literacy (CRACL), arts-based research, doctoral journey, doctorate, education, higher education, narrative, poetic inquiry, self-study, teacher education}, year = {2020}, author = {Pithouse-Morgan, Kathleen} editor = {Bradford, Brent} }