Beyond Text : Learning Through Arts-Based Research.

Cover -- Beyond Text: Learning through Arts-Based Research -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Foreword: The culture of seriousness and anxiety -- Introduction -- Arts-based research -- The interface between conventional and arts-based research methodologies -- Organization of the book -- PART I. EXPERIMENTING WITH ARTS-BASED RESEARCH PRACTICES IN ACADEMIA -- 1 Insights and outlooks: Experiences from a Ph.D. course in arts-based research methods -- Prologue -- Construction of the course -- Course content and literature -- Presentation of the students and their projects -- Example A: Meditative mood hindered discussion -- Example B: Music listening as collective enquiry? -- Example C: Sketches created confused discussion -- Example 1: Reading of dramatized data as analytical tool? -- Example 2: Joint reading as a way to develop knowledge? -- Example 3 : Interactive play based on de-humanizing speech -- Categorization of students' approaches -- The intense seeking approach -- The critically examining approach -- The positively reflecting approach -- The over-enthusiastic approach -- Insights and troubles -- Epilogue: Authors ' inner voices debating -- Learning and outlooks -- REFERENCES -- 2 Dilemmas of alienation in arts-based education research methods -- Introduction -- Arts-based researchers: Preconceptions, tensions and anxieties about practice -- Tara: A contemporary gallery worker investigating knowledge and authority -- Hannah: An educator using her artistic practice in her arts-based research methods -- Emily: Artist and teacher researching self-efficacy -- Non-arts participants' engagement with arts-based practices -- Amy and George: Troublesome encounters in the contemporary art gallery -- Conclusion -- REFERENCES -- 3 Accelerating movement across the intentional arc: Developing the strategic sensographer -- Introduction.

Scope and methodology -- Theoretical references -- The concept of aesthetic distancing -- The MICL case: Embodiment in executive masters creativity education -- Induction: The dérive -- The 'Creativity and the Creative Industries' module -- Analysis -- Conclusions -- REFERENCES -- PART II. ARTS EXPLORED THROUGH ARTS-BASED PRACTICES -- 4 Travelling to the top of the mountain: Research investigation through found poetry as means of data analysis, presentation and dissemination -- Introduction -- Context and rationale -- Theme 1: Space and place -- Theme 2: Power of drama -- Space and place -- The power of drama -- Experimenting with found poetry -- Concluding thoughts -- REFERENCES -- 5 From eco-anxiety to hope through drama -- Introduction -- Eco-anxiety and other psychosocial dimensions of the environmental crisis -- Denial and disavowal -- Socially constructed silence -- The myth of apathy -- Various forms of eco-anxiety -- Vulnerable groups of people need safe spaces -- Drama for encountering eco-anxiety -- The practice -- Drama workshops: From eco-anxiety to hope -- Collective reflection in the safe space of drama practices -- Making still images about eco-anxiety -- Collective poem writing -- Performing the poems -- An example of a performance: 'Guilty or not?' -- Experiences of the drama workshops -- Critique of the practice -- Consequences and effects -- Acknowledgements -- REFERENCES -- 6 Leaving everything behind: The use of video illustration to critically reflect upon the experiences of Palestinian academics living in the UK -- Introduction -- Leaving everything behind': A video in practice -- Critique of the practice of video illustration -- Consequences and effects of 'Leaving everything behind' -- REFERENCES -- 7 How music accessibility can be used in arts-based research experiences -- Introduction -- The problem of western music.

Accessibility ways for a participatory musical approach -- Structure way -- On-gaku' way -- Sound generators way -- The Universal Design way -- Discussion -- The bridge between ways of participative music making and research inquiry -- Conclusion -- REFERENCES -- PART III. ARTS-BASED RESEARCH ADOPTED IN PROFESSIONAL FIELDS -- 8. Organizing reflection in health-care services: The contribution of research-based theatre -- Introduction -- Theoretical background -- Applied arts as an aesthetic form -- Aesthetic distancing -- Research setting and design -- Method and data collection -- The fieldwork -- Analysis and results -- Discussion and conclusion -- Acknowledgement -- REFERENCES -- 9 The zine method as a form of qualitative analysis -- Introduction -- Practice -- Background -- Critique of practice -- Consequences and effects -- Acknowledgement -- REFERENCES -- 10 Convoking radical imagination: The use of arts-based methods for inquiry in organizational contexts -- Introduction -- Theoretical framework -- Research design -- Arts-based methods -- Phase 1: Capturing everyday experience by meditation and contemplation -- Phase 2: Dérive: Drifting for souvenirs -- Phase 3: Organizing a dialogue by flipping the stage -- Findings: Listening to employee voices in the framework of radical imagination -- Crises of imagination -- Radical imagination in action: Re-imagining things of value -- Discussion -- Acknowledgement -- REFERENCES -- PART IV. SOCIAL ACTION THROUGH ARTS-BASED PRACTICES -- 11 The Secret of Dayta : Learning and evaluating through process drama -- Preparing the land -- Origin and context -- La Nave Va and The Secret of Dayta -- Characteristics of the training -- The crop -- Methodology -- Summary of the drama process -- Harvest -- Obstacles for the training -- Motivations -- What we learnt -- The difficulty of changing work habits.

Our evaluation findings -- Reflections on educative reality in Catalonia -- Effects of the harvest -- REFERENCES -- 12 Beautiful Resistance: A response to a complicated political context -- Introduction -- The political, social and cultural context in refugee camps in Palestine -- Beautiful Resistance -- Methodology of the study -- Development of personal aspects -- Strong commitment to the community -- Positive attitudes towards the Beautiful Resistanc ... -- Art as a good tool for resistance -- Conclusions -- REFERENCES -- 13 Overflowing the University: Embodied learning, caring relationships -- Introduction: Overflowing the University is not reacting against but emerging as , like gnocchi -- The pedagogical relationship -- The river water fertilizing its banks -- A way of moving: The flight of the starlings -- What we've got on the table…there 's a lot of stuff here! -- Impressions/imprints, perceptions, voices: The a/effects of practice 12 -- What overflows us… -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- Contributors -- Index -- Back Cover.

Focuses on learning through arts-based research as a practice of social justice through which we can reimagine, interrupt, insist and resist as we engage collectively to better understand and rethink social, organisational and societal issues. The result of a multi-year and international research project. 3 tables, 31 b/w illus.

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