Presenting readers with definitions and examples of arts-based educational research, this text identifies tensions, questions, and models in the field and provides guidance for both beginning and more experienced practice.
As arts-based research grows in prominence and popularity, the barriers between empirical, institutional, and artistic research diminish, leading to an ever increasing, global need to understand and navigate this evolving domain of research. Featuring contributions from a diverse range of leading scholartists in the field, this text weaves together critical essays about arts-based research in the literary, visual, and performing arts with examples of excellence in theory and practice. These essays introduce the theory and practice of arts-based research taking place in sites of teaching and learning. The Third Edition draws together all contributors from the previous editions, with revised reflective essays, new examples and updates that bring these ground-breaking works up to date with current developments over the past decade of increased arts-based educational research activity in this rapidly expanding field.
This book is ideal for pre-service and in-service art educators. It can be utilized in art education teacher certification courses that focus on methods, or as a component of a larger foundations course on qualitative inquiry.
Presenting readers with definitions and examples of arts-based educational research, this text identifies tensions, questions, and models in the field and provides guidance for both beginning and more experienced practice. This book is ideal for pre-service and in-service art educators.
1. Introduction to the Third Edition
2. How Arts-Based Research can
Change Minds
3. Between Poetry and Anthropology. Searching for Languages of
Home
4. Voices Lost and Found. Using Found Poetry in Qualitative Research
5.
Who Will Read this Body? An A/r/tographic Statement
6. Wild Imagination,
Radical Imagination, Politics, and the Practice of Arts-Based Educational
Research (ABER) and Scholartistry
7. Finding the Progress in
Work-in-Progress. Liz Lermans Critical Response Process in Arts-Based
Research
8. Arts-based Research. Histories and New Directions
9. Four Guiding
Principles for Arts-Based Research Practice
10. Persistent Tensions in
Arts-Based Research
11. Notes from a Cuban Diary. We Believe in Our History.
An Inquiry into the 1961 Literacy Campaign Using Photographic Representation
12. Happenings. Allan Kaprows Experimental, Inquiry-Based Art Education
13.
Queering identity(ies) and fiction writing in qualitative research
14.
Celebrating Monkey Business in Art Education and Research
15. Expanding
Paradigms. Art as Performance and Performance as Communication in Politically
Turbulent Times
16. Turning Towards. Materializing New Possibilities through
Curating
17. What Is an Artist-Teacher When Teaching Second Languages?
18.
A/r/tography as Practice-Based Research
19. Songwriting as Ethnographic
Practice. How Stories Humanize
20. Hearing Jesusas Laugh
21. sista docta,
REDUX
22. Ethnographic Poetry
23. The Abandoned School as an Anomalous Place
of Learning. A Practice-led Approach to Doctoral Research
24. The Ecology of
Personal and Professional Experience. A Poets View
25. For Arts Sake, Stop
Making Art
26. Understanding and Writing the World
27. A Researcher Prepares.
The Art of Acting for the Qualitative Researcher
28. Misperformance
Ethnography
29. Art, Agency, and Inquiry. Making Connections between New
Materialism and Contemporary Pragmatism in Arts-Based Research
30. Troubling
Certainty. Readers Theater in Music Education Research
31. The Drama and
Poetry of Qualitative Method
32. Learning to Perceive. Teaching Scholartistry
33. Thinking in Comics. An Emerging Process
34. Nurse-in. Breastfeeding and
A/r/tographical Research
35. Ethnographic Activist Middle Grades Fiction.
Reflections on Researching and Writing Dear Mrs. Naidu
36. The End Run. Art
and the Heart of the Matter
37. Putting Critical Public Pedagogy into
Practice. Reorienting the Career Path of the Teacher-Artist-Scholar
38. Being
Pregnant as an International PhD Student. A Poetic Autoethnography
39.
Conclusion. The Tensions of Arts-Based Research in Education reconsidered
Melisa Cahnmann, Meigs Professor of Language and Literacy Education at the University of Georgia, has authored many books on arts-based research and pedagogy, including The Creative Ethnographer's Notebook. Recipient of a Fulbright Scholar Ambassadorship, the Meigs Distinguished Teaching Professorship, and the Beckman for Professors Who Inspire, she lives in Athens, GA, with her husband and two children.
Richard Siegesmund is Professor Emeritus of Art and Design Education at Northern Illinois University. His recent books include Visual methods of inquiry: Images as research, and he has regularly presented workshops on visual methods at the annual conference of the International Congress for Qualitative Inquiry. A recipient of two Fulbright awards in visual methodology, he and his wife now live in Switzerland dividing time between Zürich and the Upper Engadin.
