Open AccessARTful Design: Disruptions Within the Dissertation in Practice
Author(s) -
Peaches Hash
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
impacting education
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2472-5889
DOI - 10.5195/ie.2022.229
Subject(s) - curriculum , action research , identity (music) , sociology , narrative , exploratory research , the arts , pedagogy , disk formatting , action (physics) , engineering ethics , engineering , political science , computer science , social science , linguistics , philosophy , physics , quantum mechanics , acoustics , law , operating system
A student within a university’s Ed.D. program is encouraged by her director to narrow her research focus; however, her interests in Curriculum Studies, Arts-Based Educational Research, and Composition Studies led her to design a practitioner action research study examining intersections between the fields. As she collected participants’ data, she experienced poststructural disruptions within all stages of the dissertation process, from designing and collecting data to formatting and identity as a researcher. This narrative, exploratory article showcases how dissertations in practice can follow nonlinear pathways to knowledge when researchers are open to possibilities.