Narratives about how research can re-veal us

Abstract

This article contains the narratives of two research projects. Both show the transformations the authors have “suffered and enjoyed” while learning, as they focus not only on academic aspects but also and especially on perceptions and emotions as potential ways to create and to express oneself using a language that allows referring to oneself in multiple dimensions.

The first narrative details one of the professor’s vital journey and her reflections as a result of processes of collaborative action-research during her work with peers and teacher-training students. It describes how that experience has allowed her to create conditions for her students to come across powerful experiences, pondering and expressing them through various creative languages. The second author narrates the experience of  one of her students during his research work in the seminar “Physical education in special education”.