ERIC Number: EJ1226975
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Publication Date: 2019-Oct
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Inspiring Desire: A New Materialist Bent to Doctoral Education in Arts and Humanities
Carter, Susan; Gunn, Vicky
Arts and Humanities in Higher Education: An International Journal of Theory, Research and Practice, v18 n4 p296-310 Oct 2019
Doctoral learning entails transition from experienced student to stance-defending researcher, exposed to international critique: a disorientation and reorientation into a new identity. Arts and Humanities candidates typically navigate these moves without much of a map, choosing their own topics, avoiding the more externally defined approach available to STEM students, and mapping out their own research routes. They are often driven by desire and passion for their topic. Much of each candidate's core identity will be inflected by this transition of emergence, a transition that involves their embodiment, emotion and social persona. With intense and sometimes uncomfortable transition in mind, and desire as driver, new materialism, namely nomadic feminism and queer theory, can inform doctoral pedagogy in Arts and Humanities. The destabilization of normativity opens the potentials and challenges of inhabited and performed identity. Queer theory's longstanding negotiation of social and personal tensions gives a heuristic model for understanding doctoral identity transition.
Descriptors: Art, Humanities, Doctoral Programs, Doctoral Students, Feminism, Sexuality, LGBTQ People, Sexual Orientation
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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