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Poetic inquiry for the social and human sciences: Voices from the South and North (2024)
Book
van Rooyen, H., & Pithouse-Morgan, K. (2024). Poetic inquiry for the social and human sciences: Voices from the South and North. HSRC Press

Poetic Inquiry for the Human and Social Sciences: Voices from the South and North enriches human and social science research by introducing new voices, insights, and epistemologies. Poetic inquiry, or poetry as research, is a literary and performance... Read More about Poetic inquiry for the social and human sciences: Voices from the South and North.

Self-Study as a Movement and Methodology for Inside-Out Educational Change: Foundations, Characteristics, and Exemplars (2024)
Book Chapter
Pithouse-Morgan, K., Kortjass, M., & Mkhize-Mthembu, N. (in press). Self-Study as a Movement and Methodology for Inside-Out Educational Change: Foundations, Characteristics, and Exemplars. In The BERA-SAGE International Handbook of Research-Informed Education Policy and Practice (1-19). London: SAGE Publications

This chapter traces the evolution of the self-study research field since the 1990s, highlighting it as a growing force for change among education practitioners and scholars. It examines the historical backdrop of the field and identifies a set of eig... Read More about Self-Study as a Movement and Methodology for Inside-Out Educational Change: Foundations, Characteristics, and Exemplars.

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.

Rethinking qualitative data analysis in a co-creative experimental approach (2023)
Book Chapter
Pithouse-Morgan, K., & Samaras, A. P. (2023). Rethinking qualitative data analysis in a co-creative experimental approach. In J. DeHart, & P. Hash (Eds.), Arts-Based Research Across Textual Media in Education (12-27). London: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003294597-2

We are self-study research methodologists and teacher educators working across continents to enhance and broaden professional learning, knowledge, and practice. By witnessing and researching the value of multiple voices and stories interacting for pr... Read More about Rethinking qualitative data analysis in a co-creative experimental approach.

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.

Polyvocal Poetic Play Through Self-study Research: Challenging the Status Quo to Improve Professional Practice (2023)
Book Chapter
Pithouse-Morgan, K., & Samaras, A. P. (2023). Polyvocal Poetic Play Through Self-study Research: Challenging the Status Quo to Improve Professional Practice. In H. Mreiwed, M. R. Carter, S. Hashem, & C. H. Blake-Amarante (Eds.), Making Connections in and Through Arts-Based Educational Research (227-239). Singapore: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-8028-2_17

In self-study research, numerous approaches are used, including collaboratively creative poetic inquiry. In this chapter, two teacher educators and self-study scholars consider how their polyvocal poetic play has helped challenge the status quo of me... Read More about Polyvocal Poetic Play Through Self-study Research: Challenging the Status Quo to Improve Professional Practice.

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.

“Risky, rich co-creativity”: Weaving a tapestry of polyvocal collective creativity in collaborative self-study (2022)
Book Chapter
Pithouse-Morgan, K., & Samaras, A. P. (2022). “Risky, rich co-creativity”: Weaving a tapestry of polyvocal collective creativity in collaborative self-study. In B. M. Butler, & S. M. Bullock (Eds.), Learning through collaboration in self-study: critical friendship, collaborative self-study, and self-study communities of practice (203-217). Springer (part of Springer Nature). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-2681-4_15

We are teacher educators who facilitate transdisciplinary self-study research in our home countries of South Africa and the United States of America. We have worked individually and with others to guide communities of university educators and graduat... Read More about “Risky, rich co-creativity”: Weaving a tapestry of polyvocal collective creativity in collaborative self-study.

Polyvocal Poetic Play with Dialogue: Co-creativity in Self-Study Writing (2021)
Book Chapter
Pithouse-Morgan, K., & Samaras, A. P. (2021). Polyvocal Poetic Play with Dialogue: Co-creativity in Self-Study Writing. In J. Kitchen (Ed.), Writing as a Method for the Self-Study of Practice (137-154). Springer (part of Springer Nature). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-2498-8_8

We are teacher educators who facilitate and participate in transdisciplinary self-study research communities in our respective home countries of South Africa and the United States of America. Our comparable experiences first brought us together in 20... Read More about Polyvocal Poetic Play with Dialogue: Co-creativity in Self-Study Writing.

Being and becoming human in higher education: A co-autoethnographic inquiry (2021)
Book Chapter
Pithouse-Morgan, K., Pillay, D., & Naicker, I. (2021). Being and becoming human in higher education: A co-autoethnographic inquiry. In E. Lyle (Ed.), Re/humanizing education (31-42). Brill Academic Publishers. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004507593_004

We are South African academics in teacher development studies and educational leadership and management. In this chapter, we inquire, what have we learned through our autoethnographic explorations for re/humanizing learning and teaching, academic sel... Read More about Being and becoming human in higher education: A co-autoethnographic inquiry.

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.

Autoethnography as/in higher education (2021)
Book Chapter
Pithouse-Morgan, K., Pillay, D., & Naicker, I. (2021). Autoethnography as/in higher education. In T. E. Adams, S. Holman Jones, & C. Ellis (Eds.), Handbook of Autoethnography (215-227). (Second edition). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429431760-22

We explore autoethnography as a complex and potentially transformative methodology for understanding and enacting higher education. First, we position higher education in the context of global corporate managerialism and consider the possible effects... Read More about Autoethnography as/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.

Our Words Flowing into Wide Futures: Making a Difference through Poetic Professional Learning (2020)
Book Chapter
PITHOUSE-MORGAN, K. (2021). Our Words Flowing into Wide Futures: Making a Difference through Poetic Professional Learning. In H. Mreiwed, M. R. Carter, & C. Mitchell (Eds.), Art as an Agent for Social Change (179-190). Brill Academic Publishers. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004442870_018

My explorations in self-reflexive and arts-informed research have given rise to a distinctive formulation of poetic professional learning as a literary arts-inspired means of researching and enhancing professional learning. I have worked with many ot... Read More about Our Words Flowing into Wide Futures: Making a Difference through Poetic Professional Learning.

Choosing My Own Adventures: A Short Story of My Doctoral Journey (2020)
Book Chapter
Pithouse-Morgan, K. (2020). Choosing My Own Adventures: A Short Story of My Doctoral Journey. In B. Bradford (Ed.), The doctoral journey : international educationalist perspectives (27-35). Brill Academic Publishers. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004444287_003

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... Read More about Choosing My Own Adventures: A Short Story of My Doctoral Journey.