TY - JOUR
T1 - Creative expression as a way of knowing in diabetes adult health education
T2 - An action research study
AU - Stuckey, Heather L.
PY - 2009/11
Y1 - 2009/11
N2 - This action research study explores the meaning-making process using forms of creative expression for eight women with insulin-dependent diabetes. The study is theoretically informed by arts-based ways of knowing and aspects of feminist poststructuralism, and explains the process of creativity used in the action research process. The findings center on the role of the created images and (a) the layered processes of meaning around those images as imaginal, individual, and social, (b) the images as embedded in other life contexts, and (c) how creative expression deconstructs and complements medical knowledge. Focusing on the construction of knowledge and the process of creative expression, the article highlights the importance of attending to creative expression as a way of knowing in adult and health education.
AB - This action research study explores the meaning-making process using forms of creative expression for eight women with insulin-dependent diabetes. The study is theoretically informed by arts-based ways of knowing and aspects of feminist poststructuralism, and explains the process of creativity used in the action research process. The findings center on the role of the created images and (a) the layered processes of meaning around those images as imaginal, individual, and social, (b) the images as embedded in other life contexts, and (c) how creative expression deconstructs and complements medical knowledge. Focusing on the construction of knowledge and the process of creative expression, the article highlights the importance of attending to creative expression as a way of knowing in adult and health education.
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U2 - 10.1177/0741713609334139
DO - 10.1177/0741713609334139
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:73049099683
SN - 0741-7136
VL - 60
SP - 46
EP - 64
JO - Adult Education Quarterly
JF - Adult Education Quarterly
IS - 1
ER -