Learning to Live Differently in Lockdown

• Authors: Hazel Wright

Abstracts

EN

I developed a method of ‘Impressionistic research’ during the Covid pandemic to enable non-contact data collection and its ethical dissemination. During daily lengthy walks, I added material observed and overheard to that gleaned from personal contacts, practising a form of rural flanêurie. To ensure anonymity for my direct, but limited, sources, I then created composite fictionalised stories that demonstrate human adaptation and resourcefulness throughout the life-course. Incidental learning is evident in these stories imagined but also in my researcher narrative as I was finding a new way of working when social distancing proscribed biographical interviews. Thus, this article describes a methodological innovation alongside the snapshots of life in lockdown in England.

Keywords

EN

Impressionistic research; flanêurie; data fictionalisation; stories as research; human resourcefulness; Covid pandemic; research methodology

• Publisher: Wydawnictwo Naukowe Dolnośląskiej Szkoły Wyższej
• Journal: Teraźniejszość – Człowiek – Edukacja
• Year: 2021
• Volume: 23
• Issue: 1(89)
• Pages: 63-79

Dates

published

2021

Contributors

author

Hazel Wright

• Anglia Ruskin University, United Kingdom

• https://orcid.org/0000000235949780

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Identifiers

DOI

10.34862/tce/2021/07-e38m-6042

Biblioteka Nauki

2139767