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Arts Based Research



March 2011 | 208 pages | SAGE Publications, Inc

Arts Based Research is ideal for students, researchers, and practitioners. This unique book provides a framework for broadening the domain of qualitative inquiry in the social sciences by incorporating the arts as a means of better understanding and rethinking important social issues. In the book's 10 thought-provoking chapters, authors Tom Barone and Elliot W. Eisner--pioneers in the field--address key aspects of arts based research, including its purpose and fundamental ideas, controversies that surround the field and the politics and ethics involved, and key criteria for evaluation.




 
Preface
 
Acknowledgments
 
1. What Is and What Is Not Arts Based Research?
 
2. Why Do Arts Based Research?
 
Arts Based Research Example I: ?Notes From a Marine Biologist?s Daughter?
 
3. Yes, But Is It Research?
 
4. Who Can Do Arts Based Research?
 
5. Who Can Be the Audience for Arts Based Research?
 
Arts Based Research Example II: ?Broken & Buried in Arkansas?
 
6. Can Arts Based Research Be Fictive?
 
7. How Might Arts Based Research Be Both Political and Ethical?
 
Arts Based Research Example III: ?Ways of Being at Risk"
 
8. What are Some Criteria for Assessing Arts Based Research?
 
9. Is There a Place for Theory in Arts Based Research?
 
10. What Are Some Fundamental Ideas from Arts Based Research?
 
References
 
Additional Readings
 
Index
 
About the Authors

Very useful for student doing research in Restorative Justice that used art for forgiveness.

Ms Bev Orton
Criminology & Sociological Studies, Hull University
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Stimulating read which helps students to tease out relationships between arts and experiencing, arts as a means of discovery and the potential uses of arts based research as a form of social inquiry

Ms Briege Casey
School of Nursing, Dublin City University (DCU)
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I am currently using this book with 3rd year Research Methods students. Its a good alternative to other more traditional types of research methods books

Ms Julie Lawrence
Social Work, Salford University
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Recommended for those interested in arts based and creative research methods. Covers methods neglected in other research methods texts.

Ms Nisrin AlTabba
Dept of Education, North Lindsey College
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good resource for students and researchers considering alternative methods

Professor Aletta Delport
Education , Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University
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This will certainly be used in the programme as we encourage this approach - but not for everyone.
The authors are, of course, authoritative, well-established figures in the field

Roger Levy
School of Education, Hertfordshire University
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This will certainly be used in the programme as we encourage this approach - but not for everyone.
The authors are, of course, authoritative, well-established figures in the field

Roger Levy
School of Education, Hertfordshire University
March 19, 2021

An excellent compendium on a subject that is still making it's way in to mainstream. The book is well-structured and helps the read understand the different ways in which the arts can be used to faciliate and inform research. I also like the size of the book: big enough to present the array of elements that are found in arts-based research, and short enought to make it accessible for those who are new to the concept.

Dr Kristen Snyder
Quality Management, Mid Sweden University
November 15, 2018

This is an excellent text that is very easy to understand; it is clearly written and intersperses the complex theoretical ideas with a series of engaging narratives, that teach the reader both methodologies and sensitive openness in research. My own area is PBR in the applied arts and fine arts; many of the awarenesses generated by the text are transferable to this area.

Mr David Jones
Design and Applied Arts, Wolverhampton University
November 28, 2014

Very clear analysis of research related matters in the complex area of the arts.

Miss Liana Psarologaki
School of the Arts, Northampton University
September 24, 2014
Key features

Key Features

  • Three examples of arts based social research are included to ground some of the book's more abstract notions.
  • The place of theory in arts based research is investigated.
  • Additional Readings direct readers to other resources, including a wide range of examples of arts based social research.
  • The ways that arts based research prompts the re-imagining of dimensions of the social world is explored.