3rd Edition
Arts-Based Research in Education Foundations for Practice
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.
Chapter 1: Introduction to the Third Edition
Melisa Cahnmann and Richard Siegesmund
Chapter 2: How Arts-Based Research Can Change Minds
Tom Barone
Chapter 3: Between Poetry and Anthropology: Searching for Languages of Home
Ruth Behar
Chapter 4: Voices Lost and Found: Using Found Poetry in Qualitative Research
Kakali Bhattacharya
Chapter 5: Who Will Read this Body? An A/r/tographic Statement
Barbara Bickel
Chapter 6: Wild Imagination, Radical Imagination, Politics, and the Practice of Arts-Based Educational Research (ABER) and Scholartistry
Donald Blumenfeld-Jones
Chapter 7: Finding the Progress in Work-in-Progress: Liz Lerman’s Critical Response Process in Arts-Based Research
John Borstel
Chapter 8: Arts-Based Research: Histories and New Directions
Melisa Cahnmann
Chapter 9: Four Guiding Principles for Arts-Based Research Practice
Melisa Cahnmann
Chapter 10: Persistent Tensions in Arts-Based Research
Elliot Eisner
Chapter 11: Notes from a Cuban Diary: We Believe in Our History: An Inquiry into the 1961 Literacy Campaign Using Photographic Representation
Joanne C. Elvy
Chapter 12: Happenings: Allan Kaprow’s Experimental, Inquiry-Based Art Education
Charles R. Garoian
Chapter 13: Queering Identity(ies) and Fiction Writing in Qualitative Research
Douglas Gosse
Chapter 14: Celebrating Monkey Business in Art Education and Research
Madeleine Grumet
Chapter 15: Expanding Paradigms: Art as Performance and Performance as Communication in Politically Turbulent Times
Petula Sik-Ying Ho, Celia Hoi-Yan Chan, and Sui-Ting Kong
Chapter 16: Turning Toward: Materializing New Possibilities through Curating
Brooke Hofsess
Chapter 17: What Is an Artist-Teacher When Teaching Second Languages?
Yohan Hwang
Chapter 18: A/r/tography as Practice-Based Research
Rita L. Irwin and Stephanie Springgay
Chapter 19: Songwriting as Ethnographic Practice: How Stories Humanize
Kristina Jacobsen
Chapter 20: Hearing Jesusa’s Laugh
Terry Jenoure
Chapter 21: sista docta, Redux
Omi Osun Joni L. Jones
Chapter 22: Ethnographic Poetry
Adrie Kusserow
Chapter 23: The Abandoned School as an Anomalous Place of Learning: A Practice-Led Approach to Doctoral Research
Natalie LeBlanc
Chapter 24: The Ecology of Personal and Professional Experience: A Poet’s View
Carl Leggo
Chapter 25: For Art’s Sake, Stop Making Art
Jorge Lucero
Chapter 26: Understanding and Writing the World
Kristina Lyons
Chapter 27: A Researcher Prepares: The Art of Acting for the Qualitative Researcher
Kathleen R. McGovern
Chapter 28: Misperformance Ethnography
Monica Prendergast and George Belliveau
Chapter 29: Art, Agency, and Inquiry: Making Connections between New Materialism and Contemporary Pragmatism in Arts-Based Research
Jerry Rosiek
Chapter 30: Troubling Certainty: Readers’ Theater in Music Education Research
Kathryn Roulston, Roy Legette, Monica Taylor, and Celeste Buckhalter
Chapter 31: The Drama and Poetry of Qualitative Method
Johnny Saldaña
Chapter 32: Learning to Perceive: Teaching Scholartistry
Richard Siegesmund
Chapter 33: Thinking in Comics: An Emerging Process
Nick Sousanis
Chapter 34: Nurse-in: Breastfeeding and A/r/tographical Research
Stephanie Springgay
Chapter 35: Ethnographic Activist Middle Grades Fiction: Reflections on Researching and Writing Dear Mrs. Naidu
Mathangi Subramanian
Chapter 36: The End Run: Art and the Heart of the Matter
Dana Walrath
Chapter 37: Putting Critical Public Pedagogy into Practice: Reorienting the Career Path of the Teacher-Artist-Scholar
Yen Yen Woo
Chapter 38: Being Pregnant as an International PhD Student: A Poetic Autoethnography
Kuo Zhang
Chapter 39: Conclusion: The Tensions of Arts-Based Research in Education Reconsidered
Richard Siegesmund and Melisa Cahnmann
Biography
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.
