Remembering, Reflecting, Returning: A Return to Professional Practice Journey Through Poetry, Music and Images

Our composition brings together poetry, music, images and personal narratives based around the experiences of an occupational therapist, Karen, who following a family career break, returned to her profession. Our work demonstrates collaborative research practices and illuminates our experiences and journeying as practitioner-artists/researchers/teachers. This autoethnographic inquiry employs bricolage, drawing on theory and hybridized methods, inspired by the notion of ‘returning to practice’. The conversations of Karen and Katherine (mentee and mentor) as qualitative data, analyzed, interpreted and made accessible through poetry and images – along with Peter’s musical and autobiographical compositions – explore possibilities to re-examine and share alternative avenues of scholarship and theoretical understanding, not least in redefining what contribution to knowledge that artistic processes and ‘artwork’ makes methodologically, pedagogically, aesthetically, and therapeutically. Our intention is to engage the reader-viewer-listener to (re)think, take notice, disrupt, re-examine and extend personal meanings about return to practice journeys, enabling each of us to benefit and be (re)inspired. We recast aspects of ‘knowing and experience’ metaphorically, to consider and express our sense of being and becoming in the world. Importantly, we seek to explore how arts informed ways of knowing and learning about the self and other can serve to enhance our students/researchers/practitioners learning experiences.本作品整合诗歌、音乐、影像与个人叙事，围绕职业治疗师（occupational therapist）凯伦（Karen）因家庭事务中断职业生涯后重返职场的经历展开。本研究展示了协作式研究实践，阐明了我们作为从业者-艺术家/研究者-教育者的经历与心路历程。本自我民族志研究（autoethnographic inquiry）采用拼贴研究法（bricolage），依托理论与混合研究方法，其灵感源自“重返职场”这一核心理念。本研究以凯伦与凯瑟琳（分别为学员与导师）的对话作为质性数据（qualitative data），通过诗歌与影像——辅以彼得的音乐与自传式创作——对数据进行分析、阐释并呈现，以此探索重新审视与分享另类学术路径与理论认知的可能，尤其聚焦于重新界定艺术创作过程与“艺术作品”在方法论、教育学、美学与治疗学层面所能带来的知识贡献。我们的初衷是吸引读者-观者-听者（重新）思考、关注、打破固有认知、重新审视并拓展关于重返职场的心路历程的个人意义，使每位受众都能从中获益并获得（重新）启发。我们以隐喻手法重构“认知与经验”的若干面向，以此审视并表达我们在世间存在与成长的感悟。尤为重要的是，我们旨在探索以艺术为依托的认知与理解自我及他人的方式，该如何助力提升我们的学生/研究者/从业者的学习体验。