Collage Journaling with Pre-service Teachers: A Readers Theatre in One Collage

Abstract Students in a B.Ed. program take a Language Arts course and in an effort to suggest “alternative” ways of exploring the ‘content’ students were asked to make collage journals. They were encouraged to explore the process and product of making art, which sees a constant movement between the two, a vacillation between process and product through the creative act. This multi-media presentation uses the storyteller-researcher9s voice to knit the narrative together, however, it is the visual and textual voices of the students which emerge, creating a multi-vocal story of meaning-making for all. Readers may view and listen to a performance of the work at: http://education.uregina.ca/web/lewis20p/IRQR/. In order to view some of the collage journals created by the students in this research project readers will need to use the URL provided.