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This module explores how a person’s identity can be conceptualised and constructed as a creative “narrative performance” (Reissman, 2008, p.102) by engaging in arts-based educational activities i.e. collage making, photography and journaling, participants are facilitated in a tacit understanding of critical performative pedagogy, radical reflexivity and identity making. The use of visual image-making and arts based approaches to teaching and research can enable access to knowledge often silenced, contested, unrecognized and/or unacknowledged. These highlight particular ways of learning and ‘knowing’ the world and are congruent with the emancipatory intent of Narrative Arts-Based Inquiry (Finley, 2005) and what McLaren (2003) and Denzin (2005) respectively call “Revolutionary Pedagogy” and “Critical Performative” praxis.
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