Arts-Based Research in Education

Foundations for Practice

Melisa Cahnmann-Taylor, Richard Siegesmund

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2017
• ISBN:
  9781315305059
• Edition: 2
• Topic: Education
• Subtopic: Research in Education

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 across education and the social sciences, the barriers between empirical, institutional, and artistic research diminish and new opportunities emerge for discussion, consideration, and reflection. This book responds to an ever increasing, global need to understand and navigate this evolving domain of research. Featuring a diverse range of contributors, 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.

New to the Second Edition:

• Additional focus on the historical and theoretical foundations of arts-based educational research to guide readers through development of the field since its inception.

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• New voices and chapters on a variety of artistic genres, including established and emerging social science researchers and artists who act, sing, draw, and narrate findings.

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• Extends and refines the concept of scholartistry, introduced in the first edition, to interrogate excellence in educational inquiry and artistic processes and products.

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• Integrates and applies theoretical frameworks such as sociocultural theory, new materialsm, and critical pedagogy to create interdisciplinary connections.

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• Expanded toolkit for scholartists to inspire creativity, questioning, and risk-taking in research and the arts.

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Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Table of Contents
• Acknowledgments
• About the Editors
• About the Contributors
• 1 Introduction
• 2 Celebrating Monkey Business in Art Education and Research
• 3 Putting Critical Public Pedagogy into Practice: Reorienting the Career Path of the Teacher-Artist-Scholar
• 4 Art, Agency, and Inquiry: Making Connections between New Materialism and Contemporary Pragmatism in Arts-Based Research
• 5 Wild Imagination, Radical Imagination, Politics, and the Practice of Arts-Based Educational Research (ABER) and Scholartistry
• 6 Being Pregnant as an International PhD Student: A Poetic Autoethnography
• 7 What Is an Artist-Teacher When Teaching Second Languages?
• 8 Ethnographic Activist Middle Grades Fiction: Reflections on Researching and Writing Dear Mrs. Naidu
• 9 Misperformance Ethnography
• 10 Songwriting as Ethnographic Practice: How Stories Humanize
• 11 The End Run: Art and the Heart of the Matter
• 12 Expanding Paradigms: Art as Performance and Performance as Communication in Politically Turbulent Times
• 13 HAPPENINGS: Allan Kaprow’s Experimental, Inquiry-Based Art Education
• 14 Turning Towards: Materializing New Possibilities through Curating
• 15 The Abandoned School as an Anomalous Place of Learning: A Practice-led Approach to Doctoral Research
• 16 Thinking in Comics: An Emerging Process
• 17 For Art’s Sake, Stop Making Art
• 18 Finding the Progress in Work-in-Progress: Liz Lerman’s Critical Response Process in Arts-Based Research
• 19 A Researcher Prepares: The Art of Acting for the Qualitative Researcher
• 20 Learning to Perceive: Teaching Scholartistry
• 21 Four Guiding Principles for Arts-Based Research Practice
• Index