Handbook of the Arts in Qualitative Research: Perspectives, Methodologies, Examples, and Issues

721 Pages·2007·6.92 MB·English

by  J . Gary Knowles

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EMERGING SCHOLAR ADVISORY BOARD
Kelly Akerman Teresa Luciani
University of Toronto Independent Scholar
Leah Burns Maura McIntyre
University of Toronto University of Toronto
Nancy Davis Halifax Lina Medaglia
York University George Brown College
Elizabeth de Freitas Sara Promislow
Adelphi University Independent Scholar
Douglas Gosse Stephanie Springgay
Nipissing University Pennsylvania State University
Esther Ignagni Suzanne Thomas
Ryerson University University of Prince Edward Island
Dorothy Lichtblau
University of Toronto
INTERNATIONAL ADVISORY BOARD
Michael V. Angrosino Jim Mienczakowski
University of South Florida Victoria University
Deborah Barndt Lorri Neilsen
York University Mount Saint Vincent University
Thomas Barone Nicholas B. Paley
Arizona State University George Washington University
Kathryn Church Jon Prosser
Ryerson University University of Leeds
Norman Denzin Patrick Slattery
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Texas A&M University
Rita Irwin Sandra Weber
University of British Columbia Concordia University
Carl Leggo
University of British Columbia
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Knowles, J. Gary, 1947-
Handbook of the arts in qualitative research: Perspectives, methodologies, examples, and issues/
J. Gary Knowles, Ardra L. Cole.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-1-4129-0531-2 (cloth)
1. Social sciences—Research. 2. Humanities—Research. I. Cole, Ardra L. II. Title.
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CONTENTS
Preface xi
Acknowledgments xv
PART I: KNOWING 1
Chapter 1. Art and Knowledge 3
Elliot Eisner
Chapter 2. The Art of Indigenous Knowledge:
A Million Porcupines Crying in the Dark 13
Thomas King
PART II: METHODOLOGIES 27
Chapter 3. Art-Based Research 29
Shaun McNiff
Chapter 4. Visual Images in Research 41
Sandra Weber
Chapter 5. Arts-Informed Research 55
Ardra L. Cole and J. Gary Knowles
Chapter 6. Arts-Based Research 71
Susan Finley
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Chapter 7. A/R/Tographers and Living Inquiry 83
Stephanie Springgay, Rita L. Irwin, and Sylvia Kind
Chapter 8. Lyric Inquiry 93
Lorri Neilsen
PART III: GENRES 103
Literary Forms
Chapter 9. Creative Nonfiction and Social Research 105
Tom Barone
Chapter 10. Interpretive Biography 117
Norman K. Denzin
Chapter 11. Wording Pictures: Discovering Heartful Autoethnography 127
Karen Scott-Hoy and Carolyn Ellis
Chapter 12. Métissage: A Research Praxis 141
Cynthia Chambers and Erika Hasebe-Ludt with Dwayne Donald,
Wanda Hurren, Carl Leggo, and Antoinette Oberg
Chapter 13. Writing as Theory: In Defense of Fiction 155
Stephen Banks
Chapter 14. Astonishing Silence: Knowing in Poetry 165
Carl Leggo
Performance
Chapter 15. Dance, Choreography, and Social Science Research 175
Donald Blumenfeld-Jones
Chapter 16. Performative Inquiry: Embodiment and Its Challenges 185
Ronald J. Pelias
Chapter 17. Ethnodrama and Ethnotheatre 195
Johnny Saldaña
Chapter 18. Readers’ Theater as a Data Display Strategy 209
Robert Donmoyer and June Yennie Donmoyer
Chapter 19. The Music Lesson 225
Liora Bresler
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Visual Art
Chapter 20. Painting as Research: Create and Critique 239
Graeme Sullivan
Chapter 21. Photographs and/as Social Documentary 251
Claudia Mitchell and Susan Allnutt
Chapter 22. Collage as Inquiry 265
Lynn Butler-Kisber
Chapter 23. Textu(r)al Walking/Writing Through Sculpture 277
Alex F. de Cosson
Chapter 24. Installation Art-as-Research 287
Ardra L. Cole and Maura McIntyre
New Media
Chapter 25. Digital Content: Video as Research 299
Janice Rahn
Chapter 26. Blogs 313
Robert Runte
Chapter 27. Zines: Individual to Community 323
Troy R. Lovata
Chapter 28. Radio in/for Research: Creating Knowledge Waves 337
Christine McKenzie
Folk Art and Popular Art Forms
Chapter 29. Touching Minds and Hearts: Community Arts
as Collaborative Research 351
Deborah Barndt
Chapter 30. Quilts 363
Helen K. Ball
PART IV: INQUIRY PROCESSES 369
Chapter 31. An Indigenous Storywork Methodology 371
Jo-ann Archibald (Q’um Q’um Xiiem)
Chapter 32. Literacy Genres: Housecleaning––A Work With Theoretical Notes 385
Lorri Neilsen
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Chapter 33. From Research Analysis to Performance: The Choreographic Process 397
Mary Beth Cancienne
Chapter 34. Image-Based Educational Research: Childlike Perspectives 407
Jon Prosser and Catherine Burke
Chapter 35. Exhibiting as Inquiry: Travels of an Accidental Curator 421
Kathryn Church
Chapter 36. No Style, No Composition, No Judgment 435
Janice Jipson and Nicholas Paley
PART V: ISSUES AND CHALLENGES 449
Chapter 37. Performing Data With Notions of Responsibility 451
Jim Mienczakowski and Teresa Moore
Chapter 38. Ethical Issues and Issues of Ethics 459
Christina Sinding, Ross Gray, and Jeff Nisker
Chapter 39. Interrogating Reflexivity: Art, Research, and the Desire for Presence 469
Elizabeth de Freitas
Chapter 40. Art and Experience: Lessons From Dewey and Hawkins 477
Valerie J. Janesick
Chapter 41. Going Public With Arts-Inspired Social Research: Issues of Audience 485
Tom Barone
Chapter 42. Between Scholarship and Art: Dramaturgy and Quality in
Arts-Related Research 493
Kelli Jo Kerry-Moran
Chapter 43. Money Worries: Tackling the Challenges of Funding
Arts-Related Research 503
Ross Gray and Ardra L. Cole
Chapter 44. Using an Arts Methodology to Create a Thesis or Dissertation 511
J. Gary Knowles and Sara Promislow
PART VI: ARTS IN RESEARCH ACROSS DISCIPLINES 527
Chapter 45. Anthropology: Ethnography and the Book That Was Lost 529
Ruth Behar
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Chapter 46. Psychology: Knowing the Self Through Arts 545
Graham E. Higgs
Chapter 47. Women’s Studies and Arts-Informed Research:
Some Australian Examples 557
Lekkie Hopkins
Chapter 48. A History of the Arts in Educational Research:
A Postmodern Guide for Readers-Flâneurs 569
Christine van Halen-Faber and C. T. Patrick Diamond
Chapter 49. Social Work and the Arts: Critical Imagination 591
Adrienne Chambon
Chapter 50. Nursing Research and the Transformative Value of Art 603
Vangie Bergum and Dianne Godkin
Chapter 51. Health-Policy Research and the Possibilities of Theater 613
Jeff Nisker
Chapter 52. Disability Studies and the Ties and Tensions With
Arts-Informed Inquiry: One More Reason to Look Away? 625
Esther Ignagni and Kathryn Church
Chapter 53. Business Studies: Vivifying Data and Experience
Through Artful Approaches 639
Laura Brearley and Lotte Darsø
Chapter 54. Sport and Physical Education: Embracing
New Forms of Representation 653
Andrew C. Sparkes
About the Authors 665
About the Contributors 667
Index 681