Giving up and Getting Lost in Hanoi: playing with creative research methods in transnational contexts

Kendall, Alex and Lambert, Louise and Mitchell, Stuart (2020) Giving up and Getting Lost in Hanoi: playing with creative research methods in transnational contexts. Practice: Contemporary Issues in Practitioner Education, 2 (Sup 1). pp. 56-72. ISSN 2578-3866

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In this paper we share our experiences of working with creative research methods to explore HE teacher ‘becomings’ across a transnational education partnership between four universities, three in Vietnam and one in the UK. The work forms the qualitative phase of a two-year British Council Vietnam funded project. This phase of our research was concerned with HE teachers’ stories about their career trajectories, their concept making about professional learning and the value of post qualitative research methods to collaborative research across substantially contrasting social, cultural and economic settings. Drawing on ideas from post-qualitative research practices we read, talked, walked and made together in a range of face to face and digitally mediated events that opened up conversations about methodology and generated a common body of shared empirical material about HE teachers ‘becomings’. We “followed the contours” (after Mazzei 2017) of Brinkman’s (2014) concept of “abduction” and Maclure’s (2014) notion of “hot spots” to interact with our materials in ways that challenge more orthodox approaches to qualitative research that centre on the primacy of data and coding. This approach encouraged us to relinquish the certainties, the ‘giving up’ in our title, of orthodox qualitative research traditions and disorientate ourselves, getting purposefully lost (after Lather 2007), in ways that foregrounded the socio-cultural and linguistic diversity of our research partnership. We share the outcomes, on-goings and provocations of our work and the significance for both HE workforce development and international teaching and research partnerships.

Item Type: Article
Identification Number: https://doi.org/10.1080/25783858.2020.1843126
Dates:
DateEvent
30 September 2020Accepted
10 November 2020Published Online
Uncontrolled Keywords: HE Teacher Development, TNHE, post-qualitative concepts, creative methods, practitioner educator
Subjects: CAH22 - education and teaching > CAH22-01 - education and teaching > CAH22-01-01 - education
Divisions: Faculty of Health, Education and Life Sciences > School of Education and Social Work
Depositing User: Alexandra Kendall
Date Deposited: 17 Dec 2020 13:42
Last Modified: 10 May 2022 03:00
URI: https://www.open-access.bcu.ac.uk/id/eprint/10553

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