Acknowledgments
Contents
List of Figures
1 Introduction
Introduction
Arts-Based Approaches to Working with Children
The Child Artist in Art Brut
Arts-Based Methods in Practice: Interfaith Childhoods
Chapter Outlines
Conclusion
References
2 Doing: Arts Workshops as Research with Children
Introduction
Research and Art-Making with Children
Art-Making and Entangled Methodologies
Arts Workshops
Round One
Visual Expression and Identity
Values Pictures and Collaboration
Future Cities
Round Two
Refuge Tents
Patchwork Quilt—Geographies of Belonging
Homework Sheet
Round Three
Conclusion
References
3 Seeing: Visually Analysing Children’s Art
Introduction
The Emergence of Child Art
Art Brut, Outsider Art and Folk Art
Children’s Art and the Institutional Setting
Interpreting Children’s Art
Children’s Expressive Drawings
Children’s Art and Shared Narratives
Interpretive Analysis
Art, Belonging and Togetherness
Values Pictures and Self-Portraits
Pictures of Future Cities
Conclusion
References
4 Being: Children’s Ways of Being Through Art
Introduction
Art in and of Place
Representing the More-Than-Human
Depicting the Self Within the World
Depicting Space and Place
Being Children Outside
Conclusion
References
5 Believing: Belief in the Making—The Impacts of Arts-Based Approaches
Introduction
Affect and Embodied Ways of Becoming
Affect, Art and Trauma
Animating Hope
A Theory of Change
Social Impact
Increasing Intercultural Understanding with Arts-Based Methods
Conclusion
References
6 Conclusion: Doing, Seeing, Being and Believing in Arts-Based Research with Children
Introduction
Why Arts-Based Research?
Key Contributions
What Next?
Correction to: Arts-Based Methods for Research with Children
Index