ABSTRACT
This chapter presents a series of poetic representations of students’ negotiations and (re)presentations of themselves. The chapter introduces poetic representation as an analytical form that breaks away from the traditional academic writing genre to emphasize subjective and sensory dimensions of the students’ stories. With the poetic representations, research analyses with the graphical shape of poems, the book’s analyses take off in a form that shows, rather than explains to the reader, how different students think or feel about themselves as students. Giving priority to a more open-ended form of analysis, we hope to illustrate the complexities, reflexivity and emotionality of the student standpoint.
… with all the good intentions, excellent craftsmanship, and even with the reliability and eloquence of a particular story, representing Others is always going to be a complicated and contentious undertaking.
