Do With Me: The Action Orient of Arts-Based Educational Research

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  In Roundtable Session: Exploring Pedagogical Processes and Possibilities Across Diverse Contexts Through Arts-Based Educational Research

Abstract

Invoking aesthetic experiential play (Author, 2013) as the primary actant, this paper theorizes the action orient of art based educational research (ABER), an orientation that points towards innovative practices and forms of qualitative inquiry. Employing an assemblage of empirical material, the author specifically explores the significance of a Deleuzian pedagogy that invites art teacher educators to practice an ethic of 'do with me' rather than 'do as I do' (Deleuze, 1968/1994). In doing so, this paper aims to present an entanglement of pedagogical implications for art education and methodological significance for arts based educational research.

Author

• Brooke Anne Hofsess, Appalachian State University