Arts-Based Research in Education

Foundations for Practice

Melisa Cahnmann-Taylor, Richard Siegesmund, Melisa Cahnmann

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2025
• eBook ISBN: 9781040449035
• Topic: Education
• Subtopic: Art General

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.

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Half-Title Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• About the Editors
• About the Contributors
• Acknowledgments
• 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 Toward: 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
• Index