Horizons of Self-Composure: Using Poetry and Scribble-Portraits to Explore an Aesthetics of Care / Horizons de la maîtrise de soi : poésie et portrais dessinés pour étudier l’esthétisme de l’attention

: We are teacher-educators who use poetry and drawing as ways to evoke the aesthetic dimensions of care and to encourage the expression of vulnerability and perspective-taking in ourselves and ultimately within our classrooms. This piece describes an auto-ethnographic process surrounding the exploration of teacher-writer identity through the use of “scribble-portraits” and poetry. We created self-portraits and shared poetry related to our...