Co-creation of Visual Stories as a Transdisciplinary Approach

Dadkhahfard, Shima

Co-creation of Visual Stories as a Transdisciplinary Approach

dc.contributor.advisor	Takeuchi, Miwa
dc.contributor.author	Dadkhahfard, Shima
dc.contributor.committeemember	Roy, Sylvie
dc.contributor.committeemember	Sengupta, Pratim
dc.date	2024-11
dc.date.accessioned	2024-09-05T15:34:57Z
dc.date.available	2024-09-05T15:34:57Z
dc.date.issued	2024-09-03
dc.description.abstract	Through the co-creation of visual stories, this study explored the racialized and gendered bodily experiences of Afghan refugee/forced migrant families in relation to agency within the school context, particularly mathematics classroom. Using arts-based research, I facilitated workshops to evoke conversations around racialized and gendered bodily experiences of Afghan refugee/forced migrant families in the school context. An illustrated story book was used as a mediational tool to underscore the affordances of visuals in the workshops. The data sources included drawings, video recordings of the workshops, and visual field notes taken during the workshops. I conducted a visual discourse analysis of the drawings to examine how visual elements utilized in the illustrated story book helped participants to share their own bodily experiences. Mediational tools are artifacts that can mediate various actions of individuals and can shape both individual and social processes (Esmonde & Booker, 2016; Wertsch, 1998). The visual analysis of the drawings revealed that participants visually expressed their bodily experiences to depict their power and agency (Holland et al., 2001) in the school context. Participants and I illustrated findings from this study in the form of digital illustration. The story of Gol Noor was collaboratively created by the participants and me. It was co-created based on the visual analysis of the participants’ drawings, the narratives shared by participants, my own interpretations as an artist/researcher, and feedback from participants in an iterative cycle. The findings highlighted that (1) participants repurposed the artistic tools and visual elements utilized in the illustrated story book to visually communicate their embodied stories, and (2) participants communicated their experiences through representation of their bodies in relation to their agency in school, particularly focusing on aspects related to their gender and race.
dc.identifier.citation	Dadkhahfard, S. (2024). Co-creation of visual stories as a transdisciplinary approach (Doctoral thesis, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada). Retrieved from https://prism.ucalgary.ca.
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/1880/119600
dc.language.iso	en
dc.publisher.faculty	Graduate Studies
dc.publisher.institution	University of Calgary
dc.rights	University of Calgary graduate students retain copyright ownership and moral rights for their thesis. You may use this material in any way that is permitted by the Copyright Act or through licensing that has been assigned to the document. For uses that are not allowable under copyright legislation or licensing, you are required to seek permission.
dc.subject	Co-creation of Visual Stories
dc.subject	Art-based Methods
dc.subject	Visual Arts
dc.subject	Mediation
dc.subject	Agency
dc.subject	Mathematics
dc.subject	Visual Story
dc.subject.classification	Education--Art
dc.subject.classification	Education
dc.subject.classification	Education--Sciences
dc.subject.classification	Education--Social Sciences
dc.subject.classification	Design and Decorative Arts
dc.title	Co-creation of Visual Stories as a Transdisciplinary Approach
dc.type	doctoral thesis
thesis.degree.discipline	Education Graduate Program – Educational Research
thesis.degree.grantor	University of Calgary
thesis.degree.name	Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
ucalgary.thesis.accesssetbystudent	I do not require a thesis withhold – my thesis will have open access and can be viewed and downloaded publicly as soon as possible.