The Authentic Dissertation: Alternative Ways of Knowing, Research and Representation

by Aka Don Trent Jacobs, Four Arrows

• ISBN13: 9780203870501
• ISBN10: 0203870506
• Copyright: 2008-06-25
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Summary

The Authentic Dissertation is a road map for students who want to make their dissertation more than a series of hoop-jumping machinations that cause them to lose the vitality and meaningfulness of their research.

Table of Contents

Introduction

Indigenous Ways of Knowing

1^st Presentation. Four Arrows' Story, "Brilliant or Bullshit!"

2^nd Presentation. Veronica Arbon's Story, "A Facilitated Journey"

3^rd Presentation: Sandi Warren's Story, "Tin Can Bear Fat"

4^th Presentation: Joyce Schneider's Story, "Whispering the Circle Back"

5th Presentation: Barbara Mann's Story: "Double Wampum"

Creative Story Telling

1st Presentation: Pauline Sameshima's Story, "Seeing Red"

2nd Presentation: Rishma Dunlop's Story, "Boundaries"

3rd Presentation: Douglas Gosse's Story, "Breaking Silences"

4th Presentation, Deborah Ceglowski's Story, "Stories as Relationship"

Poetic Inquiry and Visual Art

2nd Presentation: Patty Holmes' Story, "A Journey to Praxis"

3rd Presentation: Robin Cox's Story, "The Creative Potential of Not Knowing"

4th Presentation: Margaret Macintyre Latta's Story, "Aesthetic Spaces"

5th Presentation: Kathy Vaughan's Story, "Inevitable"

Documentary Film and Photography

1st Presentation: Jennifer Mervyn's Story, "Metamorphosis"

2nd Presentation: Anniina Souminen Guyas's Story, "Writing with Photographs"

3rd Presentation: Denise A. Ségor's Story, "Photo Voice"

4th Presentation: Christini Ri's Story, "For Spiritual Reasons"

Drama, Dialogue and Performance

1^st Presentation: R. Michael Fisher's Story, "Fearless Leadership"

2^nd Presentation, Karen Lee, "Out of the Cage"

3rd Presentation: Annie Smith's Story, "Hybridity"

4th Presentation, Kevin Kirkland's Story, "A Grim Fairy Tale"

5th Presentation, Warren Linds' Story, "Masks in Metaxis"

6^th Presentation, George H. Elder's Story, "Passion and Sparks"

Autobiography/Auto-ethnography

Participant's Voices

1st Presentation: Doreen E. Martinez's Story, "Knowingness, negotiation, and beauty: Recognizing and sharing Indigenous' knowledge and voice."

2nd Presentation: Dixiane Hallaj's Story, "Caught by Culture"

3^rd Presentation: Denise Purnell's Story, "In My Own Backyard"

4th Presentation: Simon Pockley's Story, "Flight of Ducks"

Closing Remarks

Appendix 1, Relevant Reading

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