Joe Norris

About

Joe Norris is a pioneer in qualitative research and arts-based research methodologies advancing both playbuilding and duoethnography as dialogic research methodologies. He has focused his teaching and research on fostering a playful, creative, participatory and socially aware stance toward self and Other. He is the recipient of the 2015 Tom Barone Award for Distinguished Contributions to Arts Based Educational Research from the Arts Based Educational Research SIG of American Educational Research Association (AERA); his book, “Playbuilding as Qualitative Research: A Participatory Arts-based Approach”, receive the 2011 Outstanding Book Award from the Qualitative Research SIG of AERA; and his co-authored book, "Understanding Qualitative Research: Duoethnography", with Richard Sawyer was selected for the 2015 AERA Division D’s Significant Contribution to Educational Measurement and Research Methodology Award. While retired, he continues to work with Mirror Theatre. a social issues theatre company, and his new book, “Playbuilding as Arts-Based Research: Health, Wellness, Social Justice and Higher Education, with Kevin Hobbs and Mirror Theatre is based extensively on their work in Ontario. Dramatizations of the scripts in the book can be found on their website as he also promotes the use of video in research dissemination.

Work

Brock University
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Professor Emeritus

Canada

Brock University
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Professor

Canada

Brock University
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Chair

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Saint Francis Xavier University
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Professor

Canada

Saint Francis Xavier University
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Director

Canada

Washington State University - Vancouver
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Professor

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Washington State University - Vancouver
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Director

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University of Alberta
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Professor

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University of Lethbridge
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Assistant Professor

Canada

Education

University of Alberta
Canada

PhD

Mount Saint Vincent University
Canada

Master of Arts in Education

Saint Mary's University
Canada

Bachelor of Education

Saint Mary's University
Canada

Bachelor of Arts

Publications

Drinking Choices

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Entrances and Exits

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Mental Health Conversation Starters

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Mirror Theatre's Performance Processes

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Person-Centred Care

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Playbuilding as Arts-Based Research

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The State of the Art

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Challenging the Myths

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Decisions, Decisions

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Determining Our Efficacy and Impact

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CHALLENGING STRUCTURES OF EXCESSIVE ENTITLEMENT IN CURRICULA, TEACHING, AND LEARNING THROUGH DIALOGIC ENGAGEMENT

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Advances in Research on Teaching

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Underpinning Philosophies and Guiding Principles

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Thinking Beyond Ourselves: Career Reflections on the Trojan Horse of Hegemonic Discourses

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Scholarly Publication Trajectories of Early-career Scholars: Insider Perspectives

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Dramatizing and Workshopping the Data: Applied Theatre as Dialogic Research

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Transformative Visions for Qualitative Inquiry

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Improvisational Drama as Inquiry: The Role of the Simulated-Actual in Meaning Making

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Cultural Studies - Critical Methodologies

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Duoethnography: A polytheoretical approach to (re)storing, (re)storying the meanings that one gives

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The Oxford Handbook of Qualitative Research

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Embodying Moral Discourses Through Arts-Based Methodologies: Poetry, Visual Arts, Movement, Sounds, and Performance

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Cultural Studies - Critical Methodologies

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Shifting perspectives and practices: Mirror theatre's stop/start/continue evolution

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Canadian Theatre Review

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Playbuilding and social change

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LEARNing Landscapes

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A Walk in the Park: A Virtual Workshop Exploring Intertextuality and Implicit Powers Within Texts

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Cultural Studies ↔ Critical Methodologies

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A Walk in the Park: A Virtual Workshop Exploring Intertextuality and Implicit Powers Within Texts

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Cultural Studies - Critical Methodologies

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Improvisational Drama as Inquiry: The Role of the Simulated-Actual in Meaning Making

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Cultural Studies ↔ Critical Methodologies

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Surrender, Pedagogy Ambiguity, Research and Impossibility

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Drama Research Methods: Provocations of Practice

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Heating up online learning: Insights from a collaboration employing arts based research/pedagogy for an adult education, online, community outreach undergraduate course

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Social Sciences

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PLAYBUILDING AS QUALITATIVE RESEARCH: A Participatory Arts-Based Approach

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Playbuilding as Qualitative Research: A Participatory Arts-Based Approach

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Theorizing curriculum studies, teacher education and research through duoethnographic pedagogy

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Palgrave Macmillan

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Drama as research: Realizing the potential of drama in education as a research methodology

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Youth Theatre Journal

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Toward a dialogic methodology

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Duoethnography: Dialogic Methods for Social, Health, and Educational Research

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Teaching through duoethnography in teacher education and graduate curriculum theory courses

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Theorizing Curriculum Studies, Teacher Education, and Research through Duoethnographic Pedagogy

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A journey toward mutualist teaching and learning: A collaborative reflective practice on community building and democratic classrooms

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Interdisciplinary Reflective Practice through Duoethnography: Examples for Educators

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Dialogic interdisciplinary self-study through the practice of duoethnography

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Interdisciplinary Reflective Practice through Duoethnography: Examples for Educators

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Forms of practitioner reflexivity

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Palgrave Macmillan

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Forms of practitioner refl exivity: Critical, conversational, and arts-based approaches

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Forms of Practitioner Reflexivity: Critical, Conversational, and Arts-Based Approaches

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Interdisciplinary reflective practice through duoethnography

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Palgrave Macmillan

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Interdisciplinary reflective practice through duoethnography: Examples for educators

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Interdisciplinary Reflective Practice through Duoethnography: Examples for Educators

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Introduction: The efficacy of duoethnography in teaching and learning: A return to its roots

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Theorizing Curriculum Studies, Teacher Education, and Research through Duoethnographic Pedagogy

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Reflecting upon teaching assistant roles in higher education through participatory theater

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Forms of Practitioner Reflexivity: Critical, Conversational, and Arts-Based Approaches

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Responding to our muses: A duoethnography on becoming writers

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Duoethnography: Dialogic Methods for Social, Health, and Educational Research

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Why duoethnography: Thoughts on the dialogues

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Duoethnography: Dialogic Methods for Social, Health, and Educational Research

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Foreword

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Playing in a House of Mirrors: Applied Theatre as Reflective Practice

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Understanding qualitative research: Duoethnography

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Oxford University Press

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Duoethnography

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Routledge

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Duoethnography: Articulations/(Re)Creation Of Meaning In The Making

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The Collaborative Turn: Working Together in Qualitative Research

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Playbuilding as qualitative research

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Routledge

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Dependence day

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Journal of Curriculum and Pedagogy

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Explanation through conversation

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Alberta Journal of Educational Research

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Drama as research: Realizing the potential of drama in education as a research methodology

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Youth Theatre Journal

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Learning to teach drama: A case narrative approach

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Heinemann

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Emergent issues in qualitative research and teacher professional development

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Youth Theatre Journal

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Using case studies in drama/theatre teacher education: A process of bridge building between theory and practice

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Youth Theatre Journal

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