Transformative learning: writing narrative comedy as creative resistance
| Autor: | Susan Cake |
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| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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| Zdroj: | Reflective Practice. 19:777-790 |
| ISSN: | 1470-1103 1462-3943 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/14623943.2018.1539653 |
| Popis: | This paper examines a self-directed, transformative, learning journey triggered by the writer-researcher’s experiences of change management which led to widespread redundancies within the vocational education sector in Queensland, Australia. The creative-practice led research focussed on writing narrative comedy screenplays, titled Fighting Fit. Critical reflection was embedded in the research methodology. Reflective writing was documented in a reflection journal and triangulated against external feedback to improve screenplay drafts. Critical feedback on scripts provoked a cycle of inquiry into the lived experiences which inspired the screenplays and highlighted concerns about diminished professional agency and alienation in the workplace. These concerns were then reframed within a humorous perspective by parodying discourses surrounding organisational change management. In doing so, the creative practice-led research enabled the writer-researcher to examine her professional disquiet in response to workplace changes, crystallise values in conflict with neoliberal approaches to education and performed a kind of creative resistance to the corporatisation of vocational education. Moreover, critical reflection embedded in creative writing processes shifted the writer-researcher’s perspective towards an increased sense of agency and openness to change; arguably, a desirable outcome for practitioners operating within increasingly precarious employment situations. |
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