Using Art as Research in Learning and Teaching: Multidisciplinary Approaches Across the Arts

McNiff, Shaun

ISBN 10: 1783208929 / ISBN 13: 9781783208920

Published by Intellect Ltd, 2018

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Using Art as Research in Learning and Teaching: Multidisciplinary Approaches Across the Arts
• Publisher: Intellect Ltd
• Publication Date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1783208929
• ISBN 13: 9781783208920
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: acceptable

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Synopsis

Using Art as Research in Learning and Teaching explores various multidisciplinary visual and performing art forms, including creative writing, as ways to provide a rich contribution and understanding to research, learning, and teaching. Key figures in the field share their art-based research, arts practice, and philosophy, bringing the arts to life within their taught and learned contexts across a variety of art forms and levels of post-compulsory education. Featuring a foreword by internationally-renowned proponent of art-based research Professor Shaun McNiff, this book will be informative and useful to arts researchers and educators, addressing key challenges and possibilities in a rapidly changing higher education environment.

About the Authors

Shaun McNiff, University Professor Emeritus at Lesley University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, has advanced art-based research since the early 1970s. He is internationally recognized for furthering universal access to artistic expression as a source of creative wellbeing and facilitating human understanding through teaching, lecturing, critically acclaimed books, and publications. He is the recipient of numerous honors and awards, including the Lifetime Achievement Award of the Journal of Applied Arts & Health. 

Ross W. Prior is professor of learning and teaching in the arts in higher education at the University of Wolverhampton, UK.