Social research and the creative arts : an introduction : Pushing on the borders of an alternative paradigm: historical context for arts-based research ; Arts-based practices: an alternative paradigm ; The organization of this book: from word to image -- Narrative inquiry and fiction-based research : Narrative inquiry or the narrative method ; Fiction-based research ; Special considerations -- American circumstance (excerpt) / Patricia Leavy -- Poetic inquiry : Poetic inquiry or poetry as method ; Uses of poetry in social research ; Special considerations -- Children's poetic voices / April R. Mandrona -- Music as method : Music as a model for qualitative research ; Music as method ; Special considerations -- The beauty of song (Gonna sing my way to a PhD) / Danny Bakan [online] -- Dance and movement as inquiry : Dance as a methodological innovation ; Special considerations -- Gender icons / Jack Migdalek [online] -- Theatre, drama, and film : Theatre- or drama-based practices ; Film ; Special considerations -- Blink / Mary E. Weems -- SAILing into UNI(versity)? / Anne Harris [online] -- The visual arts : Visual arts-based research practices ; Special considerations -- Visual portraits: integrating artistic process into qualitative research / Carolyn Jongeward -- Evaluation criteria for arts-based research : Evaluation criteria ; Final comments on evaluation: on messiness, balance, and artist-researcher positionality -- Bridging the art-science divide : The arts as research ; Arts-based research practices ; Exploding myths and building coalitions: crossing the art-science divide.
Summary:
"This book presents the first comprehensive introduction to arts-based research (ABR) practices, which scholars in multiple disciplines are fruitfully using to reveal information and represent experiences that traditional methods cannot capture. Each of the six major ABR genres/m-/narrative inquiry, poetry, music, performance, dance, and visual art/m-/is covered in chapters that introduce key concepts and tools and present an exemplary research article by a leading ABR practitioner. Patricia Leavy discusses the kinds of research questions these innovative approaches can address and offers practical guidance for applying them in all phases of a research project, from design and data collection to analysis, interpretation, representation, and evaluation. Chapters include checklists to guide methodological decision making, discussion questions, and recommended print and online resources"-- Provided by publisher.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.