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Discourses of Dissonance: Enabling Sites of Praxis and Practice Amongst Arts and Design Doctoral Study

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Ph.D. study occupies a fractional and anomalous space in the university structurally, pedagogically and otherwise. This chapter contends that the Arts and Design Ph.D. and its complex relationship with practice, inhabits a dissonant terrain that further disrupts the normative frameworks of the academe and the landscape of doctoral research itself. Underpinned by a conceptual model of ‘research-practice-pedagogy’ and research at the intersection of these fields, transformational, performative and embodied spaces of learning, teaching and becoming are explored as part of a spatiotemporality that brings to the fore spaces of praxis and practice. Whilst dissonance is normally conceived as a negative lexicon, the dissonance of the Arts and Design Ph.D. is reconceived as a generative para-dox in relation to academia’s doxa vital in eliciting ‘doctoralness’.

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Taylor, J. (2019). Discourses of Dissonance: Enabling Sites of Praxis and Practice Amongst Arts and Design Doctoral Study. In: Breeze, M., Taylor, Y., Costa, C. (eds) Time and Space in the Neoliberal University. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-15246-8_9

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