In a rapidly changing world, it’s important to prepare students for possible future career paths. Using a “wicked science” training framework, participants will explore the creative potential of arts-based research (ABR), more specifically poetic inquiry, to view and understand research and teaching in a new way and from multiple perspectives. In the first session, participants will be introduced to ABR methods and how they can expand upon both qualitative and scientific methodologies. Then, they will apply these methods to their own research and teaching contexts through the process of poetic inquiry between sessions. By the end of this workshop series, participants will be able to:

• Explain the benefit of utilizing a wicked science approach to applying poetic inquiry in teaching and research contexts
• Summarize the benefits of arts-based methods and their value in teaching and research contexts
• Create found poems using poetic transcription and reflect on the process

Instructors

Carmi Milagros Thompson, The Ohio State University
Tamryn McDermott, Old Dominion University

Workshop Schedule

This two-part online workshop meets in Zoom on Tuesdays, June 24th and July 8th at 7-8:30pm Gulf / 12-1:30pm Atlantic / 11am-12:30pm Eastern / 10-11:30am Central / 9-10:30am Mountain / 8-9:30am Pacific/Arizona.

Audience

This workshop is designed for participants that are interested in exploring wicked science and poetic inquiry as a way to understand their research and teaching from a transdisciplinary perspective. 

Registration and Enrollment

Cap: 40. Registration opens on Monday, June 9 at 11am CT and closes once capacity is reached. Registration will be processed on a first-come, first-served basis and registrants from CIRTL member institutions or alumni of CIRTL member institutions will receive priority. Once registration closes, all registrants will be notified of their enrollment status.

Accessibility

If you have access needs, please let us know what they are. Contact Zoe Zuleger (zmzuleger@wisc.edu) who is supporting this workshop, to let us know how we can help you have a successful experience. In addition to meeting individualized needs, we will also take measures throughout the workshop to support accessibility for all our students:

• Sending pre-session reminders with upcoming assignments to all students
• Sharing materials for synchronous sessions with students (slides, activity instructions, etc.)
• Enabling live captioning in synchronous sessions
• Incorporating multiple modes of interaction into synchronous sessions

Learning Outcomes

All CIRTL Network programming is designed to help participants achieve familiarity with our Core Ideas. This workshop is designed around the following learning outcomes.

Associate-level Evidence-based teaching

• Describe several assessment techniques and recognize their alignment with particular types of learning goals.

Associate-level Learning-through-diversity

• Describe and recognize the value of drawing on diversity in the development of teaching plans (including content, teaching practices and assessments) to foster learning.