Abstract

PITHOUSE-MORGAN, Kathleen; PILLAY, Daisy; NAICKER, Inbanathan  and  VAN LAREN, Linda. "Imaginative, embodied scholarly assemblages": A poetic analysis of the Self-Reflexive Methodologies Special Interest Group scholarship. Journal of Education [online]. 2024, n.94, pp.65-83. ISSN 2520-9868.  http://dx.doi.org/10.17159/2520-9868/i94a05.

The Self-Reflexive Methodologies Special Interest Group (SIG) of the South African Education Research Association (SAERA) has been active since 2014, with over 100 academics from more than 20 higher education institutions participating. The 10th Anniversary SAERA special issue of Journal of Education prompted an analysis of the SIG's educational scholarship presented in five journal special issues that have served as platforms for SIG research over the years. This study comprises a multilayered poetic analysis, combining pantoum poetry clusters, tanka poems, and a lantern poem. By revisiting and examining the special issues using increasingly concise poetic forms, the study highlights the contributions and variety of local and international scholarship arising from the explorations and conversations of the SIG since its inception. This wide-ranging scholarship addresses challenges in South African education, promotes educational development and justice, advances conceptual and theoretical understanding, and broadens research methodology.

Keywords : self-reflexive research; special interest group; poetic inquiry; poetic analysis; methodological inventiveness; epistemic inventiveness.

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