Re-presenting teachers’ experiences of game based approaches through poetic transcription

This paper provides an overview of poetic transcription and how I used it to re-present

physical education teachers’ experiences of teaching games using a game based

approach (GBA). Composite narratives derived from a study exploring teachers’

experiences of GBA teaching provided the initial storying of experience with three

separate teacher capacities for experience identified; that of a Learner, a Collaborator,

and a Catalyst. These narratives were then re-storied as found poems. Discussion within

this paper comments on the reflexive action I engaged with to transform interview

transcripts into poetic form with specific comment offered as to my rationale for use of

poetic transcription as well as the process I undertook to re-see teachers’ experiences

of GBA experience. Comment stemming from a comparison of poems is also offered

along with what experimentation with poetic transcription enabled me to “do” with my

understanding of the experience of GBA teaching.