Making Connections in and Through Arts-Based Educational Research

✍ Scribed by Hala Mreiwed, Mindy R. Carter, Sara Hashem, Candace H. Blake-Amarante

• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 2023
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 285
• Series: Studies in Arts-Based Educational Research, 5
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book explores the connections made in and through arts-based educational research through four themes: socially engaged connections, cultural connections, personal and pedagogical connections, and making connections during the COVID-19 pandemic. It emerges from the 3rd bi-annual 2020 Artful Inquiry Research Group symposium on the theme of “connections”. The symposium brought together artists, community members, teachers, students, and researchers through a virtual platform to examine the way(s) in which the arts can help connect people, ideas, and spaces/places in a pandemic reality. 
Art plays a predominant role in each chapter as authors weave their research and art-based understandings together. This book is a valuable teaching resource for undergraduate and postgraduate courses in teaching, anthropology, digital ethnography, autoethnography, cultural studies, and communications. It is of interest to higher education students, academic researchers, and teachers exploring arts-based methodologies in the fields of creative practice and creativity studies, communications, critical studies, sociology, sciences, teacher education, and the arts. 

✦ Table of Contents

Series Editor Foreword
Foreword
Contents
Editors and Contributors
Introduction
1 Connections During COVID-19
2 Socially Engaged Connections
3 Storied Connections
4 Personal and Pedagogical Connections
References
Connections During COVID-19
Re-storying Immigrant Seniors During COVID-19 Through a Lens of Narrative Inquiry
1 Introduction
2 A Roadmap
2.1 The Challenge
2.2 Our Approach
3 Narrative Inquiry
3.1 Thinking Narratively
4 Introducing Don
4.1 Narrative Analysis
5 The Butterfly Effects of Re-storying
6 Conclusion
References
Shifting Work and Home Spatialities: Connecting in and Through Arts-Based Research During the COVID-19 Pandemic
1 Introduction
2 Knotting, Weaving, and Entangling the Threads
3 Our Process
3.1 The Iso Garden
3.2 Home Under Erasure
4 Conclusion
References
Connected Across Distance: Creating and Sustaining Collegial Collaboration Through Arts-Based Educational Research
1 Introduction
2 Approaches to Pedagogy and Research
2.1 Arts-Based Inquiry and Pedagogy
2.2 Arts-Based Educational Research
2.3 Multimodal Displays of Knowledge
3 Artistic Products and Analysis
3.1 Initial Art Products
3.2 Artistic Responses
4 Conclusion
References
On Recruiting Aesthetic Experience: A Trio-Ethnography of the Affordances and Limitations of Teaching (with) the Arts and Literature in a Pandemic Year
1 Designing Art Classes for a New Reality (Anne-Marie)
1.1 By Means of a Journey
1.2 Attending to Multiple Realities
2 The World’s an Oyster: Transmediality, Ekphrasis, Aesthetic Experiences in the Virtual Literature Education Classroom (Amélie)
2.1 From Johannes Vermeer to Tracy Chevalier, Peter Webber, and Mehmet Geren: Transmediality and Ekphrasis at Play
3 Interrogating Aesthetic Experience (Boyd)
4 Conclusion
References
[Performing] Connection in the Classroom During COVID-19: An Ethnodrama on Virtual Synchronous Education
1 Towards Trauma-Informed Pedagogy
2 Why Playwriting?, or Ethnodrama as Methodology
3 [Performing] Connection During COVID-19
4 Reflecting on Ethnodrama as Methodology
5 Talkback with the Playwright
References
Socially Engaged Connections
Connecting Community: Rural Girls Using an Arts-Based Digital Dialogue Tool to Address Gender-Based Violence
1 The Rural School Community and the Participants
2 Arts-Based Methodology
3 Critical Audience Engagement
4 Connecting Rural School Community Members Using an Arts-Based Digital Dialogue Tool
5 A Moment: New Respect for Girls
5.1 Girls Speak up
5.2 Community to Step up
6 A Moment: Rural Girls in Dialogue
6.1 Owning the Knowledge
6.2 Communicating Through the Visual
6.3 Drawing on Technology
7 A Moment: Encouraging Girls’ Leadership
7.1 Girls Taking the Lead
7.2 Community Valuing Own Need to Lead
8 A Moment: We, the Community, Are Listening
8.1 Learning from Each Other
8.2 Reflecting on Selves
8.3 Thinking of Action
9 Arts-Based Research and Community Engagement
References
Hope Stories of the Arts and School-Wide Change
1 Background
2 Arts-Based Research and Hope
3 What is Hope?
4 The Urban Arts Research Partnership
5 Hope Stories and the Urban Arts
6 Transforming School Culture for Students
7 Conclusion
References
The #StopAsianHate Movement: Deconstructing Asian Hate Through Digital–Visual Approach and Letter Writing
1 Introduction
2 Method
3 The First Letter: #HateIsAVirus
4 The Second Letter: The Complexity of Asian Hate and How to Cultivate Solidarity
5 The Third Letter: Asian Versus Black—Deconstruct Identities from “the Rest” (Cat 70)
6 The Fourth Letter: How COVID-19 Exposed the “Racial” Struggle in Vietnam
7 The Final Letter: Cultivating Solidarity
8 Conclusion
References
Re-imagine Connections with Natural Environment Through Socially Engaged Art
1 The Importance of Creative Approaches in Environmental Education
2 Socially Engaged Art as a Research Method
3 Project Design and Implementation
4 Summary of Findings
5 Future Direction
References
Storied Connections
Feminist Aesthetics, Intertwined Indigenous and Immigrant Life Narratives and Teaching Practices
1 Introduction
2 Displaced Life Narratives
2.1 Roula’s Context
2.2 Carolyn’s Context
3 Processual Narration of Individual and Collective Identities
3.1 Roula’s Context
3.2 Carolyn’s Context
4 Performative Narratives of Hybrid Identities
4.1 Roula’s Context
4.2 Carolyn’s Context
5 Feminist Aesthetics in Our Educational Practice
5.1 Carolyn’s Context
5.2 Roula’s Context
6 Conclusions
References
Storytelling Through Textiles: The Re-birth of a Phoenix Called Damascus
1 Introduction
1.1 Rationale and Background
1.2 Methodology
1.3 Data Analysis, Findings, and Limitations
2 Cotton: Narratives from the Past with Impact on the Present
3 Reimagining Textiles and Storytelling
4 Connecting My Art: Looking Back to Look Forward
4.1 The Dress: The Re-birth of a Phoenix Called Damascus
5 Conclusion
References
Inhabiting/Living Practice: An Emergent Collaborative Arts-Based Exhibition
1 The Development of an Emergent Arts-Based Exhibition
2 Encountering Multiple Perspectives Within Arts-Based Research
3 Unfolding Exhibition
4 Emergent Connections
5 Developing a Creative Ecosystem
References
Inclusion as Folded Choreo-Writing
1 Context: About Choreography, Dance, and the Authors
2 Methodological Exploration: Folded Choreo-Writing as Inquiry
3 The Folded Choreo-Writing Starts from Here
4 Conclusion: As if This Is the Last Fold
References
Hold on to Your Hat! All Aboard for the Train Called Fiction no Fiction!
1 From Kathryn
2 From the Suitcase—Lights On
3 From Kathryn
4 Part 1—Balls on Their Heads
4.1 From the Suitcase—Lights On
4.2 From the Suitcase—Lights Out
5 Part 2—Stinky Overcoat
5.1 From the Suitcase—Lights On
5.2 From Kathryn
5.3 From the Suitcase—Lights On
5.4 From the Suitcase—Lights Out
6 Part 3—Mermaid Pencils and Sequined Headbands
6.1 From the Suitcase—Lights On
6.2 From the Suitcase—Lights Out
7 Part 4—The Final Run-Through
7.1 From the Suitcase—Lights On
References
Personal and Pedagogical Connections
A/r/tographic Inquiry: When Art Meets Text
1 A/r/t
1.1 A: Artist
1.2 R: Researcher
1.3 T: Teacher
2 On A/r/tography
3 Meeting of Art and Text
3.1 Option 1
3.2 Option 2
3.3 Option 3
4 A/r/tographic Understandings
5 A/r/t-Full Possibilities
References
Polyvocal Poetic Play Through Self-study Research: Challenging the Status Quo to Improve Professional Practice
1 Self-study as a Research Methodology and Body of Scholarship
2 Putting Ourselves in the Arts-Based Self-study Research Frame
3 An Exemplar of Our Co-creative Work: Poetic Self-study Research
4 Toward New Ways of Knowing
References
Using Arts-Based Educational Research to Interrogate Learning in Cohorts: Shifting Dynamics and Repairing Disrupted Relationships
1 Advantages of Using ABER
2 This Inquiry
2.1 Purpose
2.2 Program Context
2.3 Participants
2.4 Inquiry Process and Methods
2.5 Analysis
3 Findings
3.1 Shifts in Understanding LIC Dynamics
3.2 Increases in Trust
3.3 Engage in Critical Reflection
3.4 Repairing Relationships
3.5 Commitment to Effective Learning Interactions
3.6 Engaging More Fully with Community
4 Conclusion
4.1 ABER and LIC Debriefings
References
Synchronicities and Tensions in and Outside of Elementary Classrooms: Perspectives on Building Collaborative, Artful Experiences
1 Assembled Modes Through Artful Experiences
2 Engaged Collaboration
3 Lived Community Practices
4 Methods, Data, and Analysis
4.1 Vignette #1
4.2 Vignette #2
5 Discussion
5.1 Implications for Arts-Based Engagement and Instruction in Schools and Communities
6 Conclusions
References
The Power of Photo-Elicitation in Promoting Conversations About Unfamiliar Topics
1 Introduction
2 My Journey to Photo-Elicitation
3 Benefits of Introducing Photo-Elicitation in Physiotherapy
4 Ethical Complexities in Using Photo-Elicitation
5 Discussion and Conclusion
References