Arts-Based Research and the Practice of Freedom in Education : Reflections from a Doctoral Course

ISBN 10: 9004710221 / ISBN 13: 9789004710221

Published by Brill Okt 2024, 2024

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Neuware - This book advocates for the inclusion of arts-based research in doctoral education programs and, indeed, in educational programs at all levels. The doing of art to investigate ideas, situations, and experiences embraces bell hooks' concept of education as the practice of freedom, a practice in which everyone can learn and every voice counts. Through the use of photography, collage, painting, sculpture, textile arts and dance, 10 current and former doctoral students who had enrolled in an arts-based research course show and write about how arts-based methods enriched their educational experiences, celebrated their wholeness by dissolving the barriers between their scholar-artist-teacher-activist selves, and affirmed the inner artist even in those who doubted they had one. Furthermore, their work establishes that arts-based research can reveal dimensions of experience that elude traditional research methods. Contributors are: Michael Alston, Kelly Bare, Shawn F. Brown, Nicholas Catino, Christopher Colón, Abby C. Emerson, Gene Fellner, Francie Johnson, Rendón Ochoa, Ingrid Romero, Mariatere Tapias and Natalie Willens.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Arts-Based Research and the Practice of Freedom in Education : Reflections from a Doctoral Course
• Publisher: Brill Okt 2024
• Publication Date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9004710221
• ISBN 13: 9789004710221
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 233W x 161H x 12D millimeters 233 millimeters width by 161 millimeters height by 12 millimeters depth
• Weight: 331 grams

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Synopsis

This book advocates for the inclusion of arts-based research in doctoral education programs and, indeed, in educational programs at all levels. The doing of art to investigate ideas, situations, and experiences embraces bell hooks’ concept of education as the practice of freedom, a practice in which everyone can learn and every voice counts.

Through the use of photography, collage, painting, sculpture, textile arts and dance, 10 current and former doctoral students who had enrolled in an arts-based research course show and write about how arts-based methods enriched their educational experiences, celebrated their wholeness by dissolving the barriers between their scholar-artist-teacher-activist selves, and affirmed the inner artist even in those who doubted they had one. Furthermore, their work establishes that arts-based research can reveal dimensions of experience that elude traditional research methods.

Contributors are: Michael Alston, Kelly Bare, Shawn F. Brown, Nicholas Catino, Christopher Colón, Abby C. Emerson, Gene Fellner, Francie Johnson, Rendón Ochoa, Ingrid Romero, Mariatere Tapias and Natalie Willens.

About the Author

Gene Fellner, Ph.D., City University of New York. His interests and publications focus on both the importance of arts-based research for teachers and students and on pedagogical practices that empower youth in underserved and oppressed communities to create positive transformational change in themselves and in the world.