Are you tired of an instrumental, boring, and repetitive academia? Read Ron Pelias’s The Creative Qualitative Researcher. This is a wonderful book for those who understand that education and research must be connected to our lives. And it surely can be a nightmare for graduate students’ supervisors who try to be purists or who want their supervisees just to follow their footsteps. Do you want a book to help you study creative methods, different from traditional mainstream academia?
The book’s author states that his aim “is to help readers see the range of possibilities of creative scholarship, a form of scholarship that I find has considerable affective and cognitive power.”1 The Creative Qualitative Researcher is divided into two parts. The first encompasses four chapters, each dedicated to a different qualitative method, written according to its style, and also serving as examples: autoethnography, performative writing, narrative inquiry, and poetic...
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