The authentic dissertation : alternative ways of knowing, research, and representation / Four Arrows, AKA Don Trent Jacobs.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-253) and index.

Introduction -- I. Indigenous Ways of Knowing -- 1. "Brilliant or Bullshit!" / Four Arrows -- 2. A Facilitated Journey / Veronica Arbon -- 3. Tin Can Bear Fat / Sandi Warren -- 4. Whispering the Circle Back / Joyce Schneider -- II. Creative Story Telling -- 1. Seeing Red / Pauline Sameshima -- 2. Boundaries / Rishma Dunlop -- 3. Breaking Silences / Douglas Gosse -- 4. Stories as Relationship / Deborah Ceglowski -- III. Poetic Inquiry and Visual Art -- 1. Breaking Silences / Dalene Swanson -- 3. The Creative Potential of Not Knowing(With Lorri Neilsen Glenn / Robin Cox -- 4. Aesthetic Spaces / Margaret Macintyre Latta -- 5. Inevitable / Kathy Vaughan -- IV. Documentary Film and Photography -- 1. Metamorphosis / Jennifer Mervyn -- 2. Writing with Photographs / Anniina Souminen Guyas -- 3. Photo Voice / Denise A. S -- 4. For Spiritual Reasons / Christini Ri -- V. Drama, Dialogue and Performance -- 1. Fearless Leadership / Presentation: R. Michael Fisher -- 3. Hybridity / Annie Smith -- 4. A Grim Fairy Tale / Kevin Kirkland -- 6. Passion and Sparks / George H. Elder -- VI. Autobiography /Auto-ethnography -- 1. The Educator's Voice Or the Club?" / Sigmund A. Boloz -- 3. I've Got to be Me / Carol Parker Terhune -- 4. Appreciative Inquiry / Jeanie Cockell -- 5. Being in Harmony / Adair Linn Nagata -- VII. Participant's Voices -- 1. Knowingness, negotiation, and beauty: Recognizing and sharing Indigenous' knowledge and voice / Doreen E. Martinez -- 2. Caught by Culture / Dixiane Hallaj -- 3. In My Own Backyard / Denise Purnell -- 4. Flight of Ducks / Simon Pockley.

"The Authentic Dissertation is a road map for students who want to make their dissertation more than a series of hoop-jumping machinations that cause them to lose the vitality and meaningfulness of their research. ; Students and tutors are presented with practical guidance for the kind of alternative dissertations that many educators believe are needed to move Doctoral and Master's level work beyond the limitations that currently stifle authentic contributions for a better world. ; Drawing on his Cherokee/Creek ancestry and the Raramuri shamans of Mexico the author explores how research can regain its humanist core and find its true place in the natural order once more. Four Arrows provides a degree of "credibility" that will help graduate students legitimize their ideas in the eyes of more conservative university committees. This inspiring book will also help academics who sincerely want to see these alternative forms but are concerned about the rigor of "alternative" dissertation research and presentation.; The featured dissertation stories tap into more diverse perspectives, more authentic experience and reflection, and more creative abilities. They are, in essence, spiritual undertakings that ; ; ; ; Honour the centrality of the researcher's voice, experience, creativity and authority; ; ; Focus more on important questions than on research methodologies per se; ; ; Reveal virtues (generosity, patience, courage, respect, humility, fortitude, etc.); ; ; Regard the people's version of reality; ; ; The goal of this book is not to replace the historical values of academic research in the western tradition, but to challenge some of these values and offer alternative ideas that stem from different, sometimes opposing values.,"--Publisher description.

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