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Facet Methodology – a creative research orientation. Presentation for the Late Life Creativity Network University of Keele, 16 March 2012 Jennifer Mason Realities at the Morgan Centre University of Manchester www.manchester.ac.uk/morgancentre/realities.
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Facet Methodology – a creative research orientation Presentation for the Late Life Creativity Network University of Keele, 16 March 2012 Jennifer Mason Realities at the Morgan Centre University of Manchester www.manchester.ac.uk/morgancentre/realities
Some problems with social science methods • Sterility, life wrung out • Experience? Resonance? • Lacking in multi-sensory ‘aliveness’ • Enumerative logic • Categories, typologies, compromises, separations • Rules and orthodoxies rather than creativity and inventiveness
Facet Methodology • An orientation, not a set of procedures • Inventiveness. A playful approach to epistemology • A visual metaphor, used gently
Facet Methodology • A connective and ‘entangled’ ontology – experience of being alive, living in the world
Facet Methodology • Facets as always methodological and substantive
Facet Methodology • Flashes of insight
Facet Methodology • Casting and refracting light
Facet Methodology • ‘Troubling’ existing assumptions and perspectives
Facet Methodology • Playing with epistemologies – astuteness, openness, empathy, humility, inventiveness
END Mason, J. (2011) ‘Facet Methodology: the case for an inventive research orientation’, Methodological Innovations Online, Vol. 6, No. 2, ‘Crossing Boundaries’http://www.pbs.plym.ac.uk/mi/ www.manchester.ac.uk/morgancentre/realities