Imprinted Beneath Our Skin: An Arts-based Murmuration Inquiry into the Somatic Lessons of the Hidden Curriculum

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dc.contributor.advisorSeidel, Jackie
dc.contributor.authorDuchscher, Towani Mahalia
dc.contributor.committeememberBurwell, Catherine
dc.contributor.committeememberBinder, Marni J.
dc.contributor.committeememberGroen, Janet Elizabeth
dc.contributor.committeememberField, James C.
dc.date2019-06
dc.date.accessioned2019-01-03T16:24:58Z
dc.date.available2019-01-03T16:24:58Z
dc.date.issued2018-12-19
dc.description.abstractThis study is about students, curriculum, schooling and the hidden curriculum. Students carry powerful lessons away from school. They carry these lessons out into the world, shaping our shared world. To attend to the power of these lessons and the impact schooling has on students and society, I explored the somatic lessons that students learn from the hidden curriculum of schooling. I came to this research as an artist, researcher, and teacher. Using a murmuration of Arts-based inquiry methods, I opened a space for student somatic knowledge to emerge, using dance as interview, documentation as listening, and poetry as translation. I asked students to represent their understandings of schooling, teaching, and learning through movement. Together, the students and I reflected on their movement expressions through Reggio-Emilia inspired documentation. I then supported the students in creating found poetry from their documented notes and comments; translating their embodied knowledge into written language. I embodied the concepts that emerged by dancing them with a small group of adult dancers and reflected on the lessons I learned about school through poetry. The dance, photographs, videos, and poetry are gathered together in an arts murmuration that paints a picture of school and the lessons that students learn from the hidden curriculum. This arts-based inquiry murmuration hopes to create a pause, a disruption, in the rhythm of taken for granted school rituals. I hope to encourage educators to question and reflect on the decisions made on behalf of students and consider the lessons that schools teach. This research is an act of love–caring for and valuing the lessons that students embody. Through listening to the body, I attend to the impact of schooling on student minds, student bodies, and subsequently society. Keywords: hidden curriculum, somatic knowledge, arts-based inquiry, dance, poetryen_US
dc.identifier.citationDuchscher, T. M. (2018). Imprinted beneath our skin: An arts-based murmuration inquiry into the somatic lessons of the hidden curriculum (Doctoral thesis, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada). Retrieved from https://prism.ucalgary.ca.en_US
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.11575/PRISM/35675
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1880/109400
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisher.facultyWerklund School of Educationen_US
dc.publisher.institutionUniversity of Calgaryen
dc.relation.referenceshttps://prism.ucalgary.ca/handle/1880/107509
dc.relation.referenceshttps://prism.ucalgary.ca/handle/1880/108704
dc.rightsUniversity of Calgary graduate students retain copyright ownership and moral rights for their thesis. You may use this material in any way that is permitted by the Copyright Act or through licensing that has been assigned to the document. For uses that are not allowable under copyright legislation or licensing, you are required to seek permission.en_US
dc.subjecthidden curriculumen_US
dc.subjectarts-based inquiryen_US
dc.subjectsomatic knowledgeen_US
dc.subjectdanceen_US
dc.subjectpoetryen_US
dc.subjectpedagogical documentationen_US
dc.subject.classificationEducationen_US
dc.subject.classificationEducation--Curriculum and Instructionen_US
dc.titleImprinted Beneath Our Skin: An Arts-based Murmuration Inquiry into the Somatic Lessons of the Hidden Curriculumen_US
dc.typedoctoral thesisen_US
thesis.degree.disciplineEducation Graduate Program – Educational Researchen_US
thesis.degree.grantorUniversity of Calgaryen_US
thesis.degree.nameDoctor of Philosophy (PhD)en_US
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