Reflexivity in Graduate Teacher and
Researcher Education: Our Journey to
Arts-Based Self-Study
Jill B. Farrell and Carter A. Winkle
Contents
Introduction ....................................................................................... 2
Our Art-Making Materials: Personal and Contextual Resources ................................ 3
Jill: The Artist ................................................................................. 3
Carter: The Actor .............................................................................. 4
Our Canvas: Theoretical/Methodological Underpinnings ....................................... 6
Vygotskian/Sociocultural Theory ............................................................. 6
Arts-Based Self-Study: Narrative Inquiry, Portraiture, and Visual Narrative Inquiry ....... 6
Visual Thinking Strategies .................................................................... 8
Our Journey from Pedagogy to Arts-Based Self-Study Methodology .......................... 9
Developing Methodology Within Grisaille: Three-Dimensional Self-Study of Professional
Development Practitioners .................................................................... 10
From Pedagogy to Methodology: Developing an Arts-Based Dialogic Narrative Analysis 16
Recursive Journeying from Methodology to Reflexive Pedagogical Device: Evolution of the
Doctoral Colloquium ............................................................................. 18
Historical Orientation to “the Colloquium” .................................................. 18
Transference of Course “Ownership” ........................................................ 19
Returning to a Co-facilitated Colloquium .................................................... 21
The Journey of Our Living Theory Continues ................................................... 22
Cross-References ................................................................................. 22
References ........................................................................................ 23
This chapter includes several sections based partially on a paper written by Jill Farrell, Carter A.
Winkle, and Mark Rosenkrantz for presentation at the annual meeting of the American Educational
Research Association (AERA), San Francisco, 2013.
J. B. Farrell (*) · C. A. Winkle
Barry University, Miami Shores, FL, USA
e-mail: jfarrell@barry.edu; cwinkle@barry.edu
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