Creative Nonfiction Research Articles

The Future in Journalism and Mass Communication India

Journalism is assembling, handling and spread of news and data identified with the news to a group of people. The word applies to both the technique for inquisitive for news and the abstract style which is utilized to spread it. Mass communication is the investigation of how people and elements transfer data through broad communications to vast fragments of the populace in the meantime. International Journal of Media Journalism and Mass Communications (IJMJMC) is an internationally peer reviewed academic journal that publishes recent advancements in the field of Media Journalism and Mass Communications. We publish articles on topics like Media studies, Media influence, Communication studies, Social science, Citizen Journalism, Creative nonfiction, Journalism ethics and standards, Journalism genres, Non-profit journalism, Corporate media, Journalistic professionalism, Media balance, Media bias Peace Journalism, Social dynamics, Political commentary etc.

Words of wisdom from mother runners: Using creative non-fiction advice letters to show psycho-social tensions and strategies influencing performance

Although motherhood is a well-documented time when recreational sport pursuits decline, researchers have shown that some women participate in sport after becoming mothers. Recreational running is one sport where mothers (re)negotiate their subjectivity in ways that resist constraining good mother ideals by expanding strategies to enhance well-being. There remain nuanced tensions in this process that are less understood, particularly in terms of how mother runners negotiate training and competing. In this study, we used relativist narrative inquiry to explore these tensions and performance strategies of five North American competitive mother runners with young children, theorized as stories in cultural narratives. We used thematic narrative analysis to identify a theme of patience with the process: it's a long and winding road. We then shifted to storytellers to present the meanings of this theme as three accessible creative non-fiction (CNF) letters of advice to other potential mother runners. Advice letters outlined strategies pertaining to the physical self, a flexible mindset and social support. We reflect on the central theme in relation to narratives of good motherhood, sport performance, and discovery, and the implications for psycho-social tensions and performance strategies. CNF advice letters show the pedagogical potential of different kinds of stories to learn more about the constraining and empowering aspects of sport in mothers’ lives, in cultural context.

“It’s Necessary Work”: Stories of Competitive Youth Sport Coaches’ Developing Critical Praxes

In this study, nine Canadian competitive youth sport coaches’ challenges and successes in creating safer and more inclusive sport spaces were explored through individual pre- and postseason interviews and an in-season reflective portfolio of their coaching experiences. From a story analyst approach, the central narrative theme of “it’s my responsibility to enact change” was identified. A storyteller approach was then used to communicate the meanings of the central theme as accessible creative nonfiction composite stories: When is it okay to intervene?; burning out … it’s consuming me; and breaking through … it’s necessary work. Building on previous research, the findings demonstrate how coaches’ critical praxes shift on a continuum of awareness and advocacy. The creative nonfictions may be used by coach educators and mental performance consultants to help coaches and leaders in sport assess their critical praxes toward challenging social issues in sport and acting in ways that support advocacy and empowerment.

Reflections on hermit crab creative non-fiction methodology: Examples from a narrative study of running fathers

In this article, we draw on research employing creative nonfiction (CNF) in psychology and the sport sciences, to outline the value of one untapped CNF methodology: the hermit crab essay. We expand the methodological repertoire for CNF in arts based research by advocating for hermit crab CNFs that borrow from ready-made structures, to present ‘real research material’ in newly creative and accessible ways. We use the r/AmItheAsshole online advice community as our borrowed structure, to create examples ‘in action’ from a narrative study of running and fatherhood. We outline reflections researchers might consider if using this form of CNF.

Embracing hybridity: the affordances of arts-based research for the professional doctorate in education

ABSTRACT Despite the growth of the professional doctorate in education (EdD), its potential for capturing practice is restricted by academic tradition. In this hybrid paper, we argue that arts-based research (ABR) can help rectify this. We bookend the paper with creative non-fiction of our own EdD experiences, where ABR is restricted and afforded. We develop our argument through a position paper mapping the theoretical similarities of the EdD and ABR. We then undertake a scoping review identifying existing research into ABR on EdD programmes. We analyse six articles using the 5A’s theory of creativity [Glăveanu 2013. Rewriting the language of creativity: The Five A's framework. Review of General Psychology 17, no. 1: 69–81] to see how these theoretical similarities are afforded. Using ABR on the EdD promotes reflexivity and co-creation, impacting upon diverse audiences. We conclude with a challenge for further research into ABR on EdD programmes through hybrid research.

Writing Qualitatively as a Process of Becoming Through Creative Nonfiction

In this manuscript, we take up the invitation by the editors of this special issue to contribute to answering the question: “What does it mean to write qualitatively?” Drawing on speculative realism, we describe writing qualitatively as a relational process of becoming through writing and reading creative nonfiction. We reflect on our experiences as researchers, subjects, collaborators, writers, and readers through lens of relational power. By collaborating to craft an immersive true story that revealed larger truths to readers, we were affected by each other, created ourselves out of what we had taken in, and influenced each other and others after being affected by them in our processes of relational becoming.

Australian Football Coaches’ Tales of Mental Toughness: Exploring the Sociocultural Roots

The present study explored how three professional Australian football coaches learned and understood mental toughness. Participants shared stories regarding mental toughness through semistructured interviews. Reflexive thematic analysis was used to interpret the data. Creative nonfiction was employed to develop a composite story. All participants’ voices contributed equally to the narrative, which follows Sam (our composite coach) through three periods in his career: as a junior player, an elite footballer, and, finally, a coach in the professional football environment. Mental toughness was fundamentally determined by the sociocultural environment in which one was immersed. Athletes and coaches were expected to internalize dominant understandings of mental toughness and reinforce ideals and were punished if they deviated from mentally tough standards set up in their clubs. Mental toughness was defined by various values, beliefs, and norms that originated from the sociocultural environment, indicating the importance of context in understanding the roots of being mentally tough.

Living in the Telling

Stories provide listeners or readers a doorway to understand the storyteller’s context and live in the telling. We, as Māori Indigenous scholars (doctoral students, researchers, and academics), bring together our stories, in the forms of creative nonfiction and poetry located in Aotearoa New Zealand and Te Whenua Moemoeā Australia, to tell the ways we navigate colonial spaces while also imagining our desired future. Centring Indigenous storytelling methods and sensory ethnography, we bring together the interrelatedness that situates our stories across time and place. The next wave of Indigenous researchers will be stepping into these spaces that we now walk, so it is timely and crucial that we find creative ways to provide clearer direction for them. We tell our stories in this paper as an act of hope that our stories might spark a fire in the reader’s heart to also tell theirs.

Léon’s feet: a story of remembering

ABSTRACT This submission is a piece of creative nonfiction that is partly memoir and partly a story about war memories in the context of the ongoing war in Ukraine.

Curriculum Delivery of English Language Macro-skills vis-à-vis Strategic Approach of Bukidnon Jesuit Mission School Teachers

This study explores the curriculum delivery of English language macro-skills in all Senior High Schools of Jesuit Mission Schools of Bukidnon Province. The participants of the study are all English teachers in Bukidnon Mission District teaching the 21st Century Literature from the Philippines and the World, English for Academic and Professional Purposes, Creative Nonfiction, Reading and Writing, Oral Communication, and Creative Writing. The study employed data triangulation to confirm research findings, reduce deficiencies, and provide credible and valid insights into the phenomenon. The quantitative result shows a high congruency of intended and observed curriculum in antecedent, transaction, and outcome; the 21st-century Literature from the Philippines and the World requires in-depth curriculum review and re-alignment in all areas, and Reading and Writing, and Creative nonfiction subjects suggest improvement in the Transaction. Three significant essences are produced in Moustaka Phenomenology as to how the curriculum is delivered: potentials in the developmental stage, pedagogical appropriation in the implementation stage, and actual results in the assessment stage. Twelve (12) syntheses derived from the data triangulation became the rationale for the contextualized development plan.

Supplemental Material for Creative Nonfiction Approach to Explore Peer Mentorship for Individuals With Spinal Cord Injury

Supplemental Material for Creative Nonfiction Approach to Explore Peer Mentorship for Individuals With Spinal Cord Injury

Flickers of Hidden Meaning – Braiding Essays as Creative Experience for Academic Writers

In creative nonfiction, the genre of the braided essay is common. This creative art of braiding different strands and outside voices might also be liberating for academic writers as an expansion of academic writing that allows hidden meaning to shine through. This teaching practice paper shares how this genre was used for writing about teaching practice at EATAW 2021. It introduces the genre of the braided essay and uses the steps of the EATAW workshop as an example of how to teach it.

‘[Trails] and tribulations’: exploring wash-out in cycling coach education

ABSTRACTThe mechanisms underlying occupational socialisation and wash-out following formal coach education are not well understood. This study explores eight cycling coaches (6 males, 2 females) navigating these challenges as they transition into their everyday coaching role. Using ethnographic interview data (collected over 18 months) and inspired by creative non-fiction (CNF) literary techniques, the accounts of three characters (Emily, Mark, and Yvette) offer rich insight into the workplace conditions that facilitate and inhibit wash-out: ignored and forgotten; the challenges of wearing two hats; and triumph on the trails. We discuss the challenges of becoming immersed and accepted into occupational cultures, the socialising force of observing other coaches, and the impact of (mis)aligned goals between the individual and organisation. This work has potential to inform the support offered to coaches following formal training.

Leila Ahmed’s A Border Passage (2012) and Nawal Saadawi’s A Doctor’s Memoir (2012) as a Model of Creative Nonfiction

Memoir is a creative literary device of recording memories that can generate narrative immersion because of their aesthetic and literary techniques. Memoirs are written in a figurative language tackling real life experience, they are also a form of creative nonfiction which represents a real-life event in a literary style. This study focuses on memoirs as a form of nonfiction recently gaining more interest among writers and expanding in publication arena. Moreover, it aims at illustrating two important aspects: how creative nonfiction has the same narrative and dramatic effect as fiction, though it differs from it, and how Leila Ahmed’s A Border Passage (1999) and Nawal Saadawi’s A Doctor’s Memoir (2012) employ literary techniques in their memoirs to convey their messages in a compelling creative style. The two works are tackled from a postcolonial ecocritical perspective which illustrates the far-reaching effect of both colonization and environment on the shaping of the two writers’ awareness and ideology.A Border Passage karya Leila Ahmed (2012) dan Memoar Seorang Dokter Karya Nawal Saadawi (2012) Sebagai Model Nonfiksi Kreatif Abstrak Memoar adalah perangkat sastra kreatif untuk merekam kenangan yang dapat menghasilkan narasi yang mendalam karena teknik estetika dan sastranya. Memoar ditulis dalam bahasa kiasan yang membahas pengalaman kehidupan nyata, juga merupakan bentuk nonfiksi kreatif yang merepresentasikan peristiwa kehidupan nyata dalam gaya sastra. Kajian ini berfokus pada memoar sebagai salah satu bentuk nonfiksi yang akhir-akhir ini semakin banyak diminati oleh para penulis dan semakin meluas dalam kancah publikasi. Selain itu, artikel ini bertujuan untuk mengilustrasikan dua aspek penting: bagaimana nonfiksi kreatif memiliki narasi dan efek dramatis yang sama dengan fiksi, meskipun berbeda dari fiksi, dan bagaimana A Border Passage (1999) karya Leila Ahmed dan A Doctor's Memoir (2012) karya Nawal Saadawi menggunakan karya sastra. teknik dalam memoar mereka untuk menyampaikan pesan mereka dalam gaya kreatif yang menarik. Kedua karya ini diambil dari perspektif ekokritik pascakolonial yang menggambarkan dampak luas kolonisasi dan lingkungan terhadap pembentukan kesadaran dan ideologi kedua penulis.

The Multiscalar Worlds of Remediation: Sitting Halfway Down a Meandering Path

This hybrid environmental creative nonfiction invites the reader to consider a small, contaminated patch of land tucked inside an industrial neighborhood in Montréal (Tiohtià:ke). By exploring the multiscalar geographies and histories of this site—now a municipal phytoremediation testbed—I seek to reframe the notion of remediation against the extractive and colonial logics that underpin Western technoscientific imaginaries and practices of healing. Thus, I will address the “pluriverse” as a coalescing of multiple and incommensurable scales of living and non-living, political and affective, and social and economic processes that define a seemingly desolate urban wasteland (Povinelli 2016). Through photography and repeated visits, I consider ancient Carboniferous worlds and persistent toxicants (Hird 2013); Suncor refineries and a neighborhood; soil (Puig de la Bellacasa 2015), trees, bacteria (Hird and Yusoff 2019), and those who inhabit and continue to care for this place.

The shy girl who became national team captain: a bioecological narrative of an Olympian’s life skills development

Bronfenbrenner’s bioecological theory scrutinized how the complex relationship between person and environment leads to human ­development. Although the concept of life skills is influenced by Bronfenbrenner’s work, exploration of the bioecological theory in sport psychology is limited. The bioecological theory was used to explore the life skills development of Júlia, a 38-year-old woman who competed nationally in track and field and internationally in rugby. Júlia completed a timeline and engaged in four interviews, and four social agents were interviewed to nuance her developmental journey. Inductive dialogic narrative analysis was conducted to present Júlia’s journey through creative nonfiction. Júlia developed life skills (e.g. communication, teamwork) from progressively more complex interactions through interpersonal relationships, experiences, and challenges in different contexts (e.g. school, work). Insights concerning the bidirectional nature of life skills development and transfer are discussed, as well as the influence sustained by the person’s biopsychosocial characteristics, culture, and time.

Salvaging

Abstract: “Salvaging” is both a memoir and a craft essay about reconciling with the fact that my mother’s habits of hoarding, reusing, and repurposing everything she has ever owned --never letting anything go to waste -- are actually very similar to the habits I have developed as a writer of memoirs and creative nonfiction.

Video Clip and Its Impact on Students’ Academic Performance in Learning Creative Nonfiction

The study focused on the use of video clips as instructional material and its impact on learning Creative Non-Fiction among Humanities and Social Sciences students in Subic National High School. The researchers used an experimental research design that involved a control group and an experimental group with a total of 60 participants. The researchers utilized a researcher-made pre-test and post-test and a survey questionnaire. The pre-test and post-test results of the control group and experimental group both showed a significant increase. Results show that the experimental group achieved a very satisfactory remark after receiving treatment which is the use of video clips presentation in learning Creative Nonfiction. Moreover, students perceived that video clips with subtitles will serve as better instructional material because they help them in learning Creative Nonfiction, understand difficult concepts, keep them engaged, and motivate them to suit their learning style. The study concluded that there is a significant difference in learning Creative Nonfiction according to the students’ gender and age profile. The researchers strongly recommend that teachers should be encouraged to use video clip presentations as a supplementary tool for better academic achievement and teachers can also integrate the use of video clips in other subjects if it is applicable and suitable.

The story of the great computer

SummaryWhat can sci‐fi novels, language‐learning exercises, research databases, and gossip magazines tell us about Sweden? The strict word limits of flash ethnography invite playful approaches to theoretical impasses. In this piece, written for a special section on flash ethnography, I return to longstanding anthropological dilemmas—how to distinguish between humans and computers, where technology meets society—to experiment with a new genre of creative nonfiction.

Excerpt from “Near Far” (Flashlets on remoteness)

Summary“Near Far” is a work in progress of “flashlets”/flash ethnography engaging questions of nearness and farness, intimacy and distance, through geographic and affective terrain. The work, a hybrid form at the border of ethnography, creative nonfiction, and poetry, pivots around the Hebrides (the ethnographic case study for “remoteness”), my wife's home.