Metaphors from Alice in Wonderland illustrate firstly the ridiculous ...

Figure 1.2: Map of Underland or Wonderland. I compiled this map with cartographic clues
throughout Lewis Carroll’s book. Crims, the central area, is surrounded by Queast in the east,
Wizend and Iplam in the west, Snud in the south, and the Crimson Sea in the north. Marmoreal is
situated in south-eastern Wonderland.
Selecting ways of organising, analysing and interpreting my data
Using my map (Figure 1.2) as guide, I organised and analysed the data by juxtaposing my lived
experiences with those of Alice. In addition, I drew on electronic communication applications to
analyse, interpret and apply primary text. By working with the data, I drew attention from various
people: one invited me to co-author an article on ugliness in education (with reference to Uglification
in Wonderland mathematics); another invited me to share my research with master‟s and doctoral
students from another university, and one invited me to discuss academic photo voice in a series of
articles on a photographic blog. In addition, I applied for funding at the National Arts Council for an
exhibition of the visual text that I collected as data for this study.
I kept a travel journal to capture my feelings of being lost similar to those when Alice became lost. As
I became emerged in my journey with Alice, I could identify with Alice‟s inquisitiveness, despite (or as
a result of?) her feelings of being lost. My regular coping skills were reduced to those of a child: my
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