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Promoting Methodological Creativity and Innovations: Editorial Learning from a Poetic Self-Study Journal Special Issue (2024)
Journal Article
Samaras, A. P., & Pithouse-Morgan, K. (2024). Promoting Methodological Creativity and Innovations: Editorial Learning from a Poetic Self-Study Journal Special Issue. Studying Teacher Education, 1-20. https://doi.org/10.1080/17425964.2024.2303667

We are teacher educators and methodological innovators who have been practicing and facilitating co-creativity (collaborative creativity) for ourselves and for others through poetic self-study. This article examines our professional learning as edito... Read More about Promoting Methodological Creativity and Innovations: Editorial Learning from a Poetic Self-Study Journal Special Issue.

Different Together: A Poetic Reading of Arts-Inspired Creations as Embodied Explorations of Social Cohesion (2023)
Journal Article
Pillay, D., Pithouse-Morgan, K., & Naicker, I. (2023). Different Together: A Poetic Reading of Arts-Inspired Creations as Embodied Explorations of Social Cohesion. Qualitative Inquiry, 30(2), 204-211. https://doi.org/10.1177/10778004231176099

We, a diverse group of South African academics, study embodied reflexivity through poetry, and this article is an account of poetic inquiry inspired by assemblages created by the participants in a symposium, Object Inquiry for Social Cohesion in Publ... Read More about Different Together: A Poetic Reading of Arts-Inspired Creations as Embodied Explorations of Social Cohesion.

Self-study in Teaching and Teacher Education: Characteristics and contributions (2022)
Journal Article
Pithouse-Morgan, K. (2022). Self-study in Teaching and Teacher Education: Characteristics and contributions. Teaching and Teacher Education, 119, Article 103880. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tate.2022.103880

The author analyzes self-study research in Teaching and Teacher Education (TATE). An introduction to self-study of professional practice as scholarship and methodology is followed by descriptions of 10 selected articles. Next is a presentation of 10... Read More about Self-study in Teaching and Teacher Education: Characteristics and contributions.

Editorial: Poetic Self-Study Research (2022)
Journal Article
Pithouse-Morgan, K., & Samaras, A. P. (2022). Editorial: Poetic Self-Study Research. Studying Teacher Education, 18(3), 219-222. https://doi.org/10.1080/17425964.2022.2080168

Through self-study research, teacher educators, teachers, and other professionals reimagine their practice to contribute to new ways of knowing and doing. Self-studies can be performed in a multitude of ways and from a variety of viewpoints. Self-stu... Read More about Editorial: Poetic Self-Study Research.

Academic Identities as Epicentres for Social Cohesiveness in Higher Education (2021)
Journal Article
Pillay, D., Chisanga, T., Hiralaal, A., Masinga, L., Naicker, I., & Pithouse-Morgan, K. (2021). Academic Identities as Epicentres for Social Cohesiveness in Higher Education. Alternation, 28(2), 1-10. https://doi.org/10.29086/2519-5476/2021/v28n2a1

This themed issue of Alternation explores how and why academics from multiple knowledge fields in South Africa and the United States of America (USA) position themselves vis-à-vis social cohesion in their everyday lives and educational practices. The... Read More about Academic Identities as Epicentres for Social Cohesiveness in Higher Education.

Nourishing Wholehearted Faculty Professional Living through Co-Creative Play (2021)
Journal Article
Samaras, A. P., & Pithouse-Morgan, K. (2021). Nourishing Wholehearted Faculty Professional Living through Co-Creative Play. Educational Forum, 85(3), 336-350. https://doi.org/10.1080/00131725.2021.1912869

This study explores the value of co-creative play spaces for faculty professional learning and development. Data are drawn from the researchers’ coauthored publications, which utilized arts-inspired data generation modes. The pluralist methodological... Read More about Nourishing Wholehearted Faculty Professional Living through Co-Creative Play.

Opening a Poetic Container: Educative Learning from a Painful Poetry Performance (2020)
Journal Article
Pithouse-Morgan, K. (2021). Opening a Poetic Container: Educative Learning from a Painful Poetry Performance. Studying Teacher Education, 17(1), 100-117. https://doi.org/10.1080/17425964.2020.1852919

The catalyst for this self-study research was the performance of a sequence of poems at a colloquium for South African deans of education. The poems portray my interpretation of my students’ stories of physically and emotionally painful experiences a... Read More about Opening a Poetic Container: Educative Learning from a Painful Poetry Performance.