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A/r/tography: A Metonymic Métissage (2004)

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In Western history, Aristotle articulated “three kinds of ‘thought’: knowing (theoria), doing (praxis), and making (poesis), the latter including poetry as well as other productive arts”. Understanding these three forms of thought has always been of interest to arts educators and those interested in accessing the arts as a means to enhance their own understanding of ideas and practices. To live the life of an artist who is also a researcher and teacher is to live a life of awareness, a life that permits openness to the complexity around us, a life that intentionally sets out to perceive things differently. From a sociocultural perspective, metissage is a language of the borderlands of English-French, of autobiography-ethnography, of male-female. Theory as a/r/tography as metissage is a way for those of us living in the borderlands to creatively engage with self and others as we re-imagine our life histories in and through time.

Keywords: a/r/tography ; action research ; aesthetic experience ; arts based research ; borderlands ; creative analytic practice ; doing ; knowing ; living inquiry ; making ; metaphor ; metissage ; poesis ; praxis ; theory

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