by Saliha | Sep 3, 2015 | Making Up Life, Play, Reflections
Originally posted at Salihabava.com/academic on June 05, 2015 ************** When I talk about life as performative, people say “what do you mean?” When I talk about how we are performing discourses of what it is to be a man, woman, immigrant, professionals etc,...
by Saliha | Sep 3, 2015 | Making Up Life, Play, Reflections
Originally posted at Salihabava.com/academic on November 21, 2010 Henry Miller said, “Confusion is a word we have invented for an order which is not yet understood.” Like children there is a certain degree of play in unfamiliar or challenging situations as we learn,...
by Saliha | Aug 3, 2015 | Making Up Life, Play, Reflections
Originally posted at Salihabava.com/academic on April 20, 2010 *********** I’m participating in an international learning community on Performance. In response to one of my fellow conversationalists I said “all of lived activity in my view is an improvisation.” To...
by Saliha | Aug 3, 2015 | Play, Reflections, Research
Originally posted at Salihabava.com/academic on June 27, 2010 Lincoln & Denzin (2003) identify their vision of the future of Qualitative research (QR) as the seventh movement of Qualitative Inquiry based on four assumptions (p. 611-613). One of the assumptions...
by Saliha | Mar 20, 2011 | Making Up Life, Play, Reflections
Originally posted at Salihabava.com/academic In the past postings I have talked about understandings and the notion of performance. Today I’m pulling these various threads to illustrate how we are designers and creators of various forms of living (social...