- Title
- Reimagining and transforming identity as rural researchers and educators : A (con)textual fugue
- Creator
- Plowright, Susan; Glowrey, Cheryl; Green, Monica; Fletcher, Anna; Harrison, Dianne; Plunkett, Margaret; Emmett, Susan; Johnson, Nicola
- Date
- 2016
- Type
- Text; Conference paper
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/162500
- Identifier
- vital:12678
- Abstract
- This paper presents the educational and research journey of a group of rural academics as a (con)textual fugue. We understand a fugue as a contrapuntal composition in which a short melody or phrase is introduced by one part and is successively taken up by other interweaving parts. Through weaving the multiple motivations and methodological underpinnings of the authors‟ individual research and education aspirations, a collective composition emerges. Our „fugue‟ represents the sum of the parts but it also challenges individualised conceptions of research and researcher identity. By conceptualising an assemblage of relational research presences and intentions for „disruptive transformations‟ in the rural context to which we are all deeply committed, we present another way of imagining or "seeing" research. Our „place‟ is Gippsland, Victoria, a distinctive and extensive area encompassing regional, rural and remote communities; diverse natural environments and localities; and correspondingly complex social, cultural and economic underpinnings. The establishment of Federation University in this setting, where the authors are situated, has precipitated what Mezirow might describe as a sudden, dramatic, reorienting insight and a reframing of habitual interpretations. Through coming together, we create a fresh impetus to pursue a collective but polyphonic purpose, impact and researcher identity.
- Relation
- Association for Research in Education (AARE)
- Rights
- Open Access
- Rights
- This metadata is freely available under a CCO license
- Subject
- Rural and regional education; Fugue; Polyphony; Researcher identity; Relationality; Disruptive transformations
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