ABSTRACT

In company with its sister volume, Arts-Based Research Across Textual Media in Education explores arts-based approaches to research across media, including film and comics-related material, from a variety of geographic locations and across a range of subdisciplines within the field of education. This first volume takes a textual focus, capturing process, poetic, and dramaturgical approaches.

The authors aim to highlight some of the approaches that are not always centered in arts-based research. The contributors represent a variety of arts-based practices and methods, and they weave this marrying of artistic and scientific expertise and experience into the fabric of the chapters themselves. Authors from international contexts speak to the importance of utilizing artistic approaches for research processes. From multimodal field notes to poetic forms to the dramaturgical, chapters in this book represent steps forward in educational inquiry to bringing together both the creative and credible. The book includes multiple images and rich descriptions shared from the field. This first volume covers amongst other topics: co-created narratives, creative fiction in research, analytic portraits, dramatic representation, and critical poetic inquiry.

It would be suitable for graduate students and scholars interested in qualitative inquiry and arts-based methods, in education and the social sciences.

chapter 2|10 pages

Running the Numbers

Rich and Dense Everydayness Stories with Data

chapter 4|19 pages

Humanizing and Multilingual Arts-Based Research Methods

Counter-Stories of Refugee-Background Students in Poland

chapter 5|13 pages

Coding Visual-Based Data

Uncovering How Children Make Meaning Through Collage

chapter 8|19 pages

Our Bodies Have Stories to Tell

Applied Theatre as Embodied Research Method in the College Classroom

chapter 9|19 pages

Holding the Mirror up to Nature

Exploring Dramatic Representation as a Method as/for Data Analysis

chapter 12|16 pages

The Teacher's Desk

Re-imagining Arts-Based Inquiry for Reflexive Professional Practice and Subjectivity in Education