A year of writing ‘dangerously’: a narrative of hope

ABSTRACT

This paper documents a year of writing dangerously to discover creative forms of inquiry that generate impact through emotional resonance. Such writing is defined as ‘dangerous’, as it involves exploring non-traditional and creative approaches, such as expressive, narrative, embodied and poetic writing. ‘Dangerous’ writing is often motivated by having the end in sight, as an awareness of limited time can help academics to prioritise personally meaningful work. Writing dangerously embodies an individual’s fundamental beliefs about an academic career worth having.

KEYWORDS:

• Dangerous writing
• academic work
• autoethnography

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author.

Notes on contributor

Joanne Yoo is a lecturer in Educational Studies at the Australian Catholic University. She has worked extensively across a wide range of subjects in primary and secondary teacher education programmes. Joanne’s research interests include developing collaborative teaching partnerships, teaching as an embodied practice, action research and arts-based research methodologies, such as narrative inquiry and autoethnography.

ORCID

Joanne Yoo http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1654-3304