Waiting for Me: Exploring Autoethnodrama

Authors

  • Robyn Taylor Shenfield University of Victoria

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18432/ari29241

Keywords:

autoethnography, autoethnodrama, performative writing, drama, teacher identity

Abstract

I In this paper, I explore autoethnodrama through the writing of a performative play text. I move between the tandem voices of my current self (30-year-old graduate student and drama teacher) and my past self (14-year-old Year 9 student) as I grapple with new theoretical ideas and academic forms of writing, as well as my place within the educational and scholarly worlds. Along with intertextual references to Waiting for Godot, my voices move between the conversational, the scholarly, the absurd and the poetic, as I try to capture a dream-like quality, perhaps reminiscent of my subconscious at a point in time. I negotiate fragments of identity and try to reconcile new theoretical concepts with practice as I attempt bring my past into the present and uncover purpose, with apologies to Beckett.

Author Biography

Robyn Taylor Shenfield, University of Victoria

Robyn Shenfield is a PhD student in the Faculty of Education at the University of Victoria. She has taught undergraduate education students in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction at UVic, and at public and independent schools in Australia and Canada. She holds undergraduate degrees and a MEd from Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane, Australia.

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Cover image by John Rae, No limit, 76 X 56 cm acrylic and collage

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2018-09-15

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Shenfield, R. T. (2018). Waiting for Me: Exploring Autoethnodrama. Art/Research/International:/A/Transdisciplinary/Journal, 3(2), 133–149. https://doi.org/10.18432/ari29241

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Vol. 3 No. 2 (2018): Art/Research International: A Transdisciplinary Journal

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