Creativity within the academy: a subjective academic narrative
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This paper practises a subjective academic narrative to tell my scholarly story of creativity within the academy. In doing so, it considers the self as data and refers to ego histoire as well as narrative discourse. In considering the role of storytelling as creativity within the academy, I also develop a sense of the importance of scholar-practitioners and of practice as academic scholarship, identifying Enlightenment practices as ‘eurowestern’. I survey the Cartesian binary and argue for laterality. As the academy grows more at ease with including creative practicum within its knowledge domain, many more PhD candidates are undertaking their studies in the artefact and exegesis model. This paper utilises my experience in founding and supervising this model within Swinburne University of Technology to make a narrative that explores how practicum- and theoretical reflections upon it- together bring breadth and dynamism into scholarly discourse.
Keywords: Self as data; Ego Histoire; The subjective academic narrative; Creativity within the academy; Scholarship as/and practicum
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