Cultivating Creativity in Methodology and Research: In Praise of Detours (Palgrave Studies in Creativity and Culture)

This Book Presents A Variety Of Narratives On Key Elements Of Academic Work, From Data Analysis, Writing Practices And Engagement With The Field. The Authors Discuss How Elements Of Academic Work And Life - Usually Edited Out Of Traditional Research Papers - Can Elicit Important Analytical Insight. The Book Reveals How The Unplanned, Accidental And Even Obstructive Events That Often Occur In Research Life, The 'detours', Can Potentially Glean Important Results. The Authors Introduce The Process Of 'writing-sharing-reading-writing' As A Way To Expand The Playground Of Research And Inspire A Culture In Which 'accountable' Research Methodologies Involve Adventurousness And An Element Of Uncertainty. Written By Scholars From A Range Of Different Fields, Academic Levels And Geographic Locations, This Unique Book Will Offer Significant Insight To Those From A Range Of Academic Fields. Charlotte Wegener, Ninna Meier, Elina Maslo, Editors. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Contents 6 List of Figures 9 List of Tables 11 1: Editors’ Introduction: The Power of ‘Showing How It Happened’ 12 References 16 Part 1: Different Vantage Points, New Insights 19 2: The Wonder of Things as They Are: Theorizing Obesity and Family Life with Art 20 The Fieldwork 22 The Novel 25 The Images 28 Thinking and Theorizing with Art 33 References 34 3: Into the Wild Time: Notes from a Traveller 37 Part I: Wrestling the Utilitarian Devil 37 Part II: Traveller Doesn’t Know Where to Go 41 Part III: Waste Indulgence 42 Part IV: Research-Care in and Beyond the Anthropocene 43 References 49 4: That’s Responsibility 51 References 62 Part 2: Research Life: Life and Research 63 5: In Between: Creative Spaces and Detours as Part of a Researcher’s Life 64 Introduction 64 Focusing on the Horizontal Aspects of Creativity 65 A Book Is Born 67 What Happened? 72 Conclusion 74 References 75 6: An Unexpected Detour from Ivory Tower to Action Research 77 My Background 77 Striving to Succeed in the Ivory Tower 78 Detour from the Ivory Tower 80 What I Have Learned 81 7: Deliberate Detours as Paths to Emergent Knowledge Creation 84 Detours as a Way of Living 84 Research as Strategy 85 Dear Researcher, Which Path to Choose? 86 Becoming an Entrepreneur: It All Started at the Kitchen Table 88 Collective Actions Transform Inequality in Healthcare 91 Assemblage: A New Framework for Analysing Participation 92 Deliberate Detours as Paths to Emergent Knowledge Creation 93 The End 94 References 95 8: Worth, Wonder and Worry in the Accelerated Academy 97 Wonder 98 Worth 100 Worry 103 References 105 9: There Is No Such Thing as a Journal Paper 107 Birth Myths 109 November 2015 110 July 1999 (or Was It 1998?) 111 July 2016 113 Conclusion 117 References 119 Part 3: How We Know: Making Sense of Methods and Field Work 121 10: The Unanticipated Outcomes of Research: Learning and Development at Work 122 Unanticipated Outcomes of Research: Learning and Development at Work 122 Doctoral Studies on Situated Cognition: Contributions of the Personal and Situational 123 Early Studies of Workplace Learning: Negotiations Between the Personal and the Situational 125 Learning Through Small Businesses: Negotiations Occur in Relatively Socially Isolated Circumstances 127 Learning Across Human History: Mimetic Learning at Work 128 Unanticipated Research Outcomes 130 References 131 11: Knowing Across Time and Place 134 References 143 12: Staying on Topic: Doing Research Between Improvisation and Systematisation 145 The Story 146 Interlude 148 The Science 148 Epilogue 150 References 152 Part 4: Coping with Complexity: Writing to Understand What We Do 155 13: Metaphorical Structuring of Pattern Analysis 156 A Short Note on the Concept of Patterns 157 What I Use Patterns For 158 ‘Hunting for Patterns’: Metaphorical Structuring 159 Coaxing 159 Tracking and Meandering 161 Trapping 164 Afterthought 166 Insights About My Pattern Analyses 167 Value in the Metaphorical Structuring of Pattern Analysis 168 References 169 14: Telling Tales of the Unexpected 170 Narratives in Qualitative Research 170 What Is a Narrative and How Can It Be Used in Social Research? 171 The Narrative: A Journey on a Bus 172 How Can We Understand the Narrative as a Story of a Father and His Worry About His Son? 173 Narratives and Emotions 175 Narratives in Research 177 Concluding Remarks 179 References 180 15: Writing My Way Home 181 June 182 July 183 August 184 September 185 October 187 November 188 December 189 16: Riding the Waves of Collaborative-­Writing-­as-Inquiry: Some Ontological Creative Detours 192 The Impossibility of Detours 193 At Swim-Two-Birds1 or Maybe More? 197 Riding Waves 200 References 203 17: “Give It a Name and It Will Be Yours”: How Opportunities to Reflect on Essential Questions Can Create Space for Learning 205 Introduction 205 Space for Reflections on Learning 207 Space for Reflection on Doing Research 209 The Simplest of All Things 210 Opportunities to Ask Essential Questions: Spaces for Reflection, Spaces for Learning 211 References 214 18: Confessions of a Procrastinator 216 19: Epilogue or Why Creative Detours (Often) Have Happy Endings 227 References 231 Appendix 234 Index 235 Front Matter ....Pages i-xi Editors’ Introduction: The Power of ‘Showing How It Happened’ (Ninna Meier, Charlotte Wegener, Elina Maslo)....Pages 1-7 Front Matter ....Pages 9-9 The Wonder of Things as They Are: Theorizing Obesity and Family Life with Art (Lone Grøn)....Pages 11-27 Into the Wild Time: Notes from a Traveller (Christina Berg Johansen)....Pages 29-42 That’s Responsibility (Chris Smissaert)....Pages 43-54 Front Matter ....Pages 55-55 In Between: Creative Spaces and Detours as Part of a Researcher’s Life (Lene Tanggaard)....Pages 57-69 An Unexpected Detour from Ivory Tower to Action Research (Jody Hoffer Gittell)....Pages 71-77 Deliberate Detours as Paths to Emergent Knowledge Creation (Karen Ingerslev)....Pages 79-91 Worth, Wonder and Worry in the Accelerated Academy (Rasmus Hoffmann Birk)....Pages 93-102 There Is No Such Thing as a Journal Paper (Sarah Gilmore, Nancy Harding)....Pages 103-116 Front Matter ....Pages 117-117 The Unanticipated Outcomes of Research: Learning and Development at Work (Stephen Billett)....Pages 119-130 Knowing Across Time and Place (Ninna Meier)....Pages 131-141 Staying on Topic: Doing Research Between Improvisation and Systematisation (Constance de Saint-Laurent)....Pages 143-152 Front Matter ....Pages 153-153 Metaphorical Structuring of Pattern Analysis (Camilla Kølsen Petersen)....Pages 155-168 Telling Tales of the Unexpected (Elisabeth Willumsen)....Pages 169-179 Writing My Way Home (Charlotte Wegener)....Pages 181-191 Riding the Waves of Collaborative-Writing-as-Inquiry: Some Ontological Creative Detours (Ken Gale, Jonathan Wyatt)....Pages 193-205 “Give It a Name and It Will Be Yours”: How Opportunities to Reflect on Essential Questions Can Create Space for Learning (Elina Maslo)....Pages 207-217 Confessions of a Procrastinator (Noomi Matthiesen)....Pages 219-229 Epilogue or Why Creative Detours (Often) Have Happy Endings (Vlad Petre Glăveanu)....Pages 231-237 Back Matter ....Pages 239-244