Papers by Charles Egerton, Ph.D.
Being and Becoming: A Photographic Inquiry with Bahá’í men into Cultures of Peace is doctoral res... more Being and Becoming: A Photographic Inquiry with Bahá’í men into Cultures of Peace is doctoral research that asks how Bahá’í men know, experience and perform their own masculinities as told through their stories and photographs. Within the spiritual context of the Bahá’í sacred tenet of equality of the sexes it sought new knowledge about how participants negotiate and transform their masculinities to facilitate rather than thwart the building of cultures of peace. Using photographic, art-based methods it asked: What is it to be a man today and attempt to construct a new understanding of masculinity? How is this process evident in practice? What are the stories of resistance and/or negotiation with negative cultural norms of masculinity? The study is upheld by three theoretical guy-wires: Bourdieu’s habitus, the Magic Mirror of visual introspection through photography, and Sacred Relationship a core Bahá'í and Indigenous lens into power, equality and accountability to all our relations. The study used PhotoSophia (a new photo- elicitation method), with a bundle of six methodological practices incorporating arts-based visual methods: Interview, PhotoSophia, group study and discussion, inscription, Photovoice and public exhibit. These methods were designed to seek deep reflection into masculine identity formation. The study concluded with a public exhibit of the photographs and inscriptions created by the researcher and participants opening the process to outside input through anonymous questionnaires. Findings include the agency the self-reflective PhotoSophia method itself as illumination into the shadows of masculinity. Primary findings are: willing vulnerability as a form of moral courage; ambiguity as a state of learning and resisting; the need for examples, a standard for a new masculinity; authenticity to be one’s true self in alignment with the Creator, and all our relations, and finally practicing sacred spiritual relationships in shoulder to shoulder service with women and others. This study has both methodological and theoretical significance to Peace and Conflict Studies (PACS) theory by providing new knowledge about the masculine qualities that best facilitate the building of cultures of peace, equality and human oneness. Access dissertation here: http://hdl.handle.net/1993/34847
Global Journal of Peace Research and Praxis, Mar 25, 2015
as a change agent, Bahá'í, Faith-based change project, Conflict transformation through art "The c... more as a change agent, Bahá'í, Faith-based change project, Conflict transformation through art "The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera, Dorothea Lange once wrote …" (Kirsch, 1978, p. N1) 1 "…one thing about the pictures is it's almost like a window. It allows us to see through the eyes of someone else and gives us insight into what the other person may be feeling or how their life is or how they perceive something." (Participant comment in Easterling, 2000, p. 5) I am a photographer and educator with a passion for seeking peace, justice, and our common humanity. This article seeks to lay out the elements of my project CommonVisions: Photographic Explorations of Unity in Diversity (see Figure 1) that blended dialogue with photography to heal the wounds of racism.
The Canadian Journal of Action Research, 2017
Arts-based research (AbR) is a cross-disciplinary “set of methodological tools” (p. ix) utilizing... more Arts-based research (AbR) is a cross-disciplinary “set of methodological tools” (p. ix) utilizing the principles of the creative arts, that can be applied to all aspects of social research from cultivating data, to analysis. Patricia Leavy’s (2015) Method Meets Art: Arts-based Research Practice (MMA) is an in-depth exploration of AbR practices. Why is arts-based research important to action research practitioners? Perhaps it is the profound and untapped potential artistic practices can offer to further human knowledge, understanding, and problem solving through the inductive arts-based action research approach. Not only for artists, Leavy presents an argument that AbR offers rich new approaches and practices beneficial to all researchers.
Drafts by Charles Egerton, Ph.D.
Expanding the Edges of Narrative Inquiry Research, 2019
Being and Becoming A Photographic Inquiry with Bahá’í Men into Cultures of Peace (The Essence of ... more Being and Becoming A Photographic Inquiry with Bahá’í Men into Cultures of Peace (The Essence of an Arts-based Doctoral Study) draft -Chapter 9 in Expanding the Edges of Narrative Inquiry Research --. by Chuck Egerton Ph.D. 2019
Thesis Chapters by Charles Egerton, Ph.D.
University of Manitoba, Electronic Theses and Dissertations (Public), 2020
Being and Becoming: A Photographic Inquiry with Bahá’í men into Cultures of Peace is doctoral res... more Being and Becoming: A Photographic Inquiry with Bahá’í men into Cultures of Peace is doctoral research that asks how Bahá’í men know, experience and perform their own masculinities as told through their stories and photographs. Within the spiritual context of the Bahá’í sacred tenet of equality of the sexes it sought new knowledge about how participants negotiate and transform their masculinities to facilitate rather than thwart the building of cultures of peace. Using photographic, art-based methods it asked: What is it to be a man today and attempt to construct a new understanding of masculinity? How is this process evident in practice? What are the stories of resistance and/or negotiation with negative cultural norms of masculinity? The study is upheld by three theoretical guy-wires: Bourdieu’s habitus, the Magic Mirror of visual introspection through photography, and Sacred Relationship a core Bahá'í and Indigenous lens into power, equality and accountability to all our relations. The study used PhotoSophia (a new photo- elicitation method), with a bundle of six methodological practices incorporating arts-based visual methods: Interview, PhotoSophia, group study and discussion, inscription, Photovoice and public exhibit. These methods were designed to seek deep reflection into masculine identity formation. The study concluded with a public exhibit of the photographs and inscriptions created by the researcher and participants opening the process to outside input through anonymous questionnaires. Findings include the agency the self-reflective PhotoSophia method itself as illumination into the shadows of masculinity. Primary findings are: willing vulnerability as a form of moral courage; ambiguity as a state of learning and resisting; the need for examples, a standard for a new masculinity; authenticity to be one’s true self in alignment with the Creator, and all our relations, and finally practicing sacred spiritual relationships in shoulder to shoulder service with women and others. This study has both methodological and theoretical significance to Peace and Conflict Studies (PACS) theory by providing new knowledge about the masculine qualities that best facilitate the building of cultures of peace, equality and human oneness. Access dissertation here: http://hdl.handle.net/1993/34847
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Papers by Charles Egerton, Ph.D.
Drafts by Charles Egerton, Ph.D.
Thesis Chapters by Charles Egerton, Ph.D.