Making Space for Creativity, Exploring Creativity in Praxis: An Arts-Based Autoethnography

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dc.contributor.advisorStraubhaar, Rolf
dc.contributor.authorThomas, Zachary
dc.contributor.committeeMemberGuajardo, Miguel A.
dc.contributor.committeeMemberSchreck, James
dc.contributor.committeeMemberMartinez, Melissa
dc.date.accessioned2023-12-18T21:25:24Z
dc.date.available2023-12-18T21:25:24Z
dc.date.issued2023-12
dc.description.abstractIn this arts-based autoethnography (Chang, 2016; Forest, 2009; Keifer-Boyd, 2011), I use an autoethnographic exploration of my own process in creating an artistic work representing my doctoral journey as a means to explore the pedagogical and personal power of creativity. I supplement this through the autoethnographic analysis of several artifacts collected along my doctoral journey, namely journals I built for my doctoral cohort, sketchbooks I made for participants in a doctoral course I took on creativity, drawings I made of my doctoral cohort’s hands, and notes I took during my doctoral program coursework. Through this study, my intent is to push the limits of how we conceptualize learning and the knowledge-making process, as well as how we represent that knowledge. “He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.” Friedrich Nietzsche “What I mean, take it easy, but take it!” Pete Seeger “Whenever government assumes to deliver us from the trouble of thinking for ourselves, the only consequences it produces are those of torpor and imbecility.” William Godwin
dc.description.departmentCounseling, Leadership, Adult Education, and School Psychology
dc.formatText
dc.format.extent96 pages
dc.format.medium1 file (.pdf)
dc.identifier.citationThomas, Z. (2023). Making space for creativity, exploring creativity in praxis: An arts-based autoethnography (Unpublished dissertation). Texas State University, San Marcos, Texas.
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10877/17736
dc.language.isoen
dc.subjectcreativity
dc.subjectautoethnography
dc.subjectarts-based research
dc.subjecteducation
dc.subjectschool improvement
dc.subjectpainting
dc.subjectcreative classroom
dc.subjectimagination
dc.subjectliteracy
dc.subjectcommunication
dc.subjectart
dc.subjectpainting
dc.titleMaking Space for Creativity, Exploring Creativity in Praxis: An Arts-Based Autoethnography
dc.typeDissertation
thesis.degree.departmentCounseling, Leadership, Adult Education, and School Psychology
thesis.degree.disciplineSchool Improvement
thesis.degree.grantorTexas State University
thesis.degree.levelDoctoral
thesis.degree.nameDoctor of Philosophy

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