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Swing Beam: My Father's Story of Life on the Farm and the Barns He Loved and Lost--An Arts-informed, Life History Perspective

Through narrative, poetic, and visual inquiry, this arts-informed thesis reclaims the silenced voices and life histories of both our elderly farmers and of our elderly architecture--the barn. Using the life history model of research (Knowles & Cole, 2001), I engage in informal "chats" (Archibald, 2008, p. 377) with my elderly father to seek out the meaning and significance of his life spent on the farm--and his emotional response to the taking down of his two bank barns after the sale of his farm. What results is a "responsive" (Knowles & Cole, 2001, p. 10) representation of data, an alternative type of meaning and knowledge that is known as arts-informed qualitative representation.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:TORONTO/oai:tspace.library.utoronto.ca:1807/42632
Date20 November 2013
CreatorsLush, Laura
ContributorsAllen, Guy
Source SetsUniversity of Toronto
Languageen_ca
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeThesis

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