Embodied Inquiry: Research Methods

✍ Scribed by Jennifer Leigh; Nicole Brown

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Year: 2021
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 145
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Embodied inquiry is the process of using embodied approaches in order to study, explore or investigate a topic. But what does it actually mean to be 'embodied’? This book explores why and how we use our bodies in order to research, what an embodied approach brings to a research project, and the kinds of considerations that need to be taken into account to research in this way.
We all have bodies, feelings, emotions and experiences that affect the questions we are interested in, the ways in which we choose to approach finding out the answers to those questions, and the patterns we see in the data we gather as a result. Embodied Inquiry foregrounds these questions of positionality and reflexivity in research. It considers how a project or study may be designed to take these into account and why multimodal and creative approaches to research may be used to capture embodied experiences. The book offers insights into how to analyse the types of data emerging from embodied inquiries, and the ethical considerations that are important to consider.
Accounting for the interdisciplinary nature of the field, this book has been written to be a concise primer into Embodied Inquiry for research students, scholars and practitioners alike.

✦ Table of Contents

Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Figures
Author Bios
Series Editor Foreword
Acknowledgements
Chapter 1: What is Embodied Inquiry?
Chapter 2: An Overview of Embodied Inquiry
Chapter 3: Designing for Embodied Inquiry
Chapter 4: Data in Embodied Inquiry
Chapter 5: Analysis in Embodied Inquiry
Chapter 6: Issues and Challenges of Embodied Inquiry
Chapter 7: Embodied Inquiry Now and in the Future
References
Index