67 Authors’ Note: Please address correspondence to Lisa La Jevic, Pennsylvania State University, Art Education Office, 207 Arts Cottage, University Park, PA 16802-2905: e-mail: lml150@psu.edu. A/r/tography as an Ethics of Embodiment Visual Journals in Preservice Education Lisa La Jevic 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. Keywords: a/r/tography; ethics; embodiment; arts education; visual journals; teacher education A /r/tography is an arts-based research methodology that inquires into edu- cational phenomenon through artistic and aesthetic means (Springgay, Irwin, & Kind, 2005). Yet a/r/tography is more than a mode of scholarly inquiry or a method of representing research through artistic means, it is an embodied query into the interstitial spaces between art making, researching, and teaching. A/r/tographical research engages in pedagogical inquiry where the distinctions between researcher and researched become complicated, responsive, and undone (Kind, 2006). Qualitative Inquiry Volume 14 Number 1 January 2008 67-89 © 2008 Sage Publications 10.1177/1077800407304509 http://qix.sagepub.com hosted at http://online.sagepub.com at PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIV on November 16, 2008 http://qix.sagepub.com Downloaded from