
Arts-Based Research in Education
Foundations for Practice
Routledge (Publisher)
3rd Edition
Will be published approx. on 30. December 2025
Book
Hardback
412 pages
978-1-032-51308-9 (ISBN)
Description
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 practices.
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.
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.
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Edition
3rd edition
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Postgraduate and Undergraduate
Illustrations
27 s/w Abbildungen, 10 farbige Abbildungen, 27 s/w Photographien bzw. Rasterbilder, 9 Farbfotos bzw. farbige Rasterbilder, 1 farbige Zeichnung
1 Line drawings, color; 9 Halftones, color; 27 Halftones, black and white; 10 Illustrations, color; 27 Illustrations, black and white
Dimensions
Height: 260 mm
Width: 183 mm
Thickness: 28 mm
Weight
1017 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-032-51308-9 (9781032513089)
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Foundations for Practice
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Foundations for Practice
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Foundations for Practice
E-Book
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3rd Edition
Routledge
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Melisa Cahnmann-Taylor | Richard Siegesmund
Arts-Based Research in Education
Foundations for Practice
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12/2017
2nd Edition
Routledge
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Persons
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 Zuerich and the Upper Engadin.
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 Zuerich and the Upper Engadin.
Content
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 Lerman's 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 Kaprow's 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 Jesusa's 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 Poet's View 25. For Art's 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