This annotated anthology, edited by Kathleen M Quinlan, PhD, features poetry that highlights the felt and embodied experiences
of higher education. Education is an inherently holistic experience – one that involves our feelings, our bodies, our identities and our
spirituality, as well as our intellect. However, the affective, spiritual and embodied dimensions of educational experience are underexplored in traditional
social science research on higher education.
Poetry, though, can bring the reader into a felt experience. Good poetry captures the imagination, connects author and reader, and creates an embodied, emotional experience in the reader. This edited collection uses poetry to provide insight into the felt experience of higher education: the joy, fear, pain, disappointment, boredom, excitement, passion, indignation associated with growing, learning and teaching in higher education. Through these poetic insights, coupled with commentaries by higher education researchers, the book will challenge existing theory, literature, policy and practice in higher education.
of higher education. Education is an inherently holistic experience – one that involves our feelings, our bodies, our identities and our
spirituality, as well as our intellect. However, the affective, spiritual and embodied dimensions of educational experience are underexplored in traditional
social science research on higher education.
Poetry, though, can bring the reader into a felt experience. Good poetry captures the imagination, connects author and reader, and creates an embodied, emotional experience in the reader. This edited collection uses poetry to provide insight into the felt experience of higher education: the joy, fear, pain, disappointment, boredom, excitement, passion, indignation associated with growing, learning and teaching in higher education. Through these poetic insights, coupled with commentaries by higher education researchers, the book will challenge existing theory, literature, policy and practice in higher education.
