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With Speaker: Joe Norris, Brock University

Joe Norris has focused his teaching (drama in education, applied theatre and research methods) and research (qualitative and arts-based) on fostering a playful, creative, participatory, dialogic and socially aware stance toward self and Other. He has pioneered two award-winning dialogic research methodologies, playbuilding and duoethnography. He is also currently working/playing in performative inquiry projects that involve video dissemination of performances through web links. Joe believes that conversation is a natural way of both conducting research and teaching. Coupling this with arts-based methodologies, where knowledge is generated through the interplay of word, number, image, gesture and sound, he has developed processes in which people can return to their ‘five-year-old selves’ to interactively make meaning through play. This talk will gently scaffold participation, ‘inviting’ those assembled to mutually [sic] think seriously.

Presented by McGill DISE Research: Talks