The partisanship and performativity of creative practice research for environmental education: Questions around editing interviews and knowledge production
Author Identifier
Cassandra Tytler: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0357-7123
Document Type
Book Chapter
Publication Title
Methodological Approaches to STEM Education Research Volume 4
Publisher
Cambridge Scholars Publishing
School
School of Education
RAS ID
71794
Abstract
An embrace of posthumanism in environmental education (EE) has supported grounded and embodied modes of practice-based research as a methodology. Emphasis has moved from representational knowledge to a celebration of affective encounters in place. This chapter draws on an art project undertaken at the Queen Victoria Market as a place-based methodology. I question the notion of agency of the artist/researcher in EE research and their neutrality in the process of presenting their creative research. Specifically, I look at audio interviews that I edited into a creative work and exhibited at the market as an audio-visual soundscape. If creative research is performative and takes part in processes of worlding, where does the neutrality in research lie? From a posthuman perspective, how can the EE single-subject-researcher presenting creative work remove their partisanship? To connect with these methodological questions, I look to Mazzei’s theorisation of a Voice without Organs (2013) alongside Alaimo’s theorisation of trans corporeality (2008). I turn to Barad (2003) to argue the performativity of creative research challenges the authority conceded to language to define what is real. This is a step towards a pedagogy that opens itself beyond human exceptionalism to further learning about the human and the more-than-human.
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Tytler, C. (2023). The partisanship and performativity of creative practice research for environmental education: Questions around editing interviews and knowledge production. In Methodological Approaches to STEM Education Research (Vol. 4, pp. 233-248). Cambridge Scholars Publishing. https://www.cambridgescholars.com/resources/pdfs/978-1-5275-2589-4-sample.pdf