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What is Seamful Inquiry

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A methodology that draws from feminist poststructural theory and qualitative arts-informed methods to examine power at the seams of daily life. Focusing on gaps and tensions within “official” and “unofficial” sites of power, between bodies and language, life stories and broader social forces, seamful inquiry incorporates open-ended art forms in data collection, analysis, and dissemination.
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Learning with a Curve: Young Women's “Depression” as Transformative Learning
Paula S. Cameron (St. Francis Xavier University, Canada)
Copyright: © 2014 |Pages: 23
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-6260-5.ch007
Abstract
This feminist arts-informed study investigates “depression” as transformation in the lives of young rural women in Nova Scotia, Canada. The author facilitated interviews and zine workshops with four young women who experienced severe depression in their early 20s and remain “angled toward it.” Drawing from Transformative Learning theory, the author asks: How does lived experience of severe psychic suffering affect the “habits of minds” (Mezirow, 1978) of young women? By doing so, the author responds to calls for adult education research on mental health and the intersections between women's emotions, bodies, transformative learning, and the arts. The author addresses the dearth of research on mental illness and transformation and offers preliminary implications for Transformative Learning theory.
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