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Using found poetry to explore creativity in the professional lives of English teachers
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This arts-based research considers creativity in the professional lives of English teachers in a school in England within the context of a progressively performative education system. In addition, it explores how found poetry can represent participants’ voices in an illuminating and authentic manner. The teachers who participated in the study were able to scrutinise, reflect and comment upon the content of poems created from the words found in an initial interview transcript. This recursive process supports a credible way of seeing and knowing the teachers’ voices in a representation that gives a deeper understanding of the participants’ creative experiences. The construction, interrogation, and presentation of the found poems reveal that the teachers of English believe they have reduced freedom to be creative or to act with agency in their professional lives. The reduced freedom to be creative stems from the normalising practices of working within a culture of performance. The restrictions are both tangible and self-imposed by the participants.
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“Matthews and colleagues (2023) similarly demonstrated the analytic value of found poetry for exploring teachers' professional lives, and our work extends that insight by showing how found poetry can illuminate not only professional experience but also the rhetorical and ethical labor of writing 'as a teacher' in contexts where voice is consequential.”
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Echoes in Translation: Reassembling Teacher Voice Through Poetic Inquiry
Le, T. T., & Pham, T. T. (2026) · International Journal of Education and the Arts · doi:10.59236/ijea27n22
Metadata
- Authors
- Matthews, M., Bamber, S., & Jones, L.
- Affiliations
- University of Chester (GB)
- Corresponding author
- Jones, Luke
- Venue
- Teachers and Teaching
- Publisher
- Informa UK Limited
- Published
- 2023-04-26
- Volume
- 29
- Issue
- 7-8
- Pages
- 739-752
- ISSN
- 1354-0602 (ISSN-L)
- 1470-1278
- OpenAlex
- W4367322842
- Cited by
- 4
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
- 2026: 4
- FWCI
- 11.44
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- hybrid
- dx.doi.org
- Licence
- Locations
- Teachers and Teaching (publishedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
- ChesterRep (University of Chester) (submittedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Visual Arts and Performing Arts › Artistic and Creative Research
- Social Sciences › Education › Teacher Education and Leadership Studies
- Social Sciences › Cultural Studies › Posthumanist Ethics and Activism
- Keywords
- found poetry, teacher creativity, English teachers, professional agency, teacher voice, arts-based research, reflective practice
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