Multilayered Representation in Research

This paper describes a multi-layered qualitative action research study presented at the Twelfth Annual Conference on Ethnographic and Qualitative Research. The Aesthetics of Ethnography: A Moving Triangle, was an interactive installation that demonstrated the aesthetics of ethnography for education. Participants were invited to share their own constructions of meaning when engaged in activities related to multicultural calendar artifacts. The research methodology of this study is collective reflection, developed by the researchers in the process of interpreting teacher education student\u27s multicultural calendar artifacts as texts. The article highlights one of the multicultural calendar artifacts displayed in the installation, through hyperlinks to images of the multicultural calendar artifact itself. Our discussion of multiple representations gives insight into how we, as teacher educators, generate language in curriculum development for multicultural teacher education. Now the journey is ending the wind is losing heart Into your hands it\u27s falling, a rickety house of cards. The cards are backed with pictures displaying all the world. You\u27ve stacked up all the images and shuffled them with words. And how profound the playing that once again begins! Stay, the card you\u27re drawing is the only world you\u27ll win. Ingeborg Bachmann, 1926-1973 Translated from the German by Peter Filkins