Arts-Based Research Across Visual Media in Education

In company with its sister volume, this book explores arts-based approaches to research across media, including film and comics-related material, from a variety of geographic locations and across a range of subdisciplines within the field of education. This second volume has a focus exclusively on visual output and image-based research and methods.

The book aims to highlight some of the approaches that are not always centered in arts-based research. The visual takes center stage as authors lead with comics-based representations, among other forms of arts-based inquiry. These chapters follow on from the first collection and serve to expand thinking about merging creative methods with analysis and exploration in the world of education. From mixtapes to the curatorial, these chapters showcase the ways in which scholars explore the multitude of human experiences. This second volume covers, among other topics: comics in qualitative research, visual journaling, multimodal fieldnotes and discourse, and creative visual outputs.

It is suitable reading for graduate students and scholars interested in qualitative inquiry and arts-based methods, in education and the social sciences.

Jason D. DeHart is a writer, researcher, and teacher who currently lives in North Carolina. DeHart earned his PhD in Literacy Studies from The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, in 2019. He has written widely about the use of comics in classroom work and in research; additionally, DeHart writes about the use of film and media. He has served as a middle school, high school, and university-level teacher. He is also the coeditor of two Routledge volumes, Teaching Challenged and Challenging Topics in Diverse and Inclusive Literature: Addressing the Taboo in the English Classroom (2023) and Connecting Theory and Practice in Middle School Literacy: Critical Conversations (2021).

Peaches Hash, Ed.D., is currently a lecturer within Appalachian State University’s Department of English and an English teacher for Johns Hopkins University’s Center for Talented Youth. Her research interests include expressive arts, arts-based educational research, composition studies, and gifted education.