What Shall We Name the Baby? Identifying the Art in Research and Research in the Arts

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

Heeding this year’s call for “linking possibilities of education research and recognizing evidence of various types can be used for tackling persisting issues in education and for their innovative resolution,” four scholars grounded in Arts-Based Educational Research (ABER) will discuss the ways in which art plays a role in research and research plays a role in the arts. Exploring ABER through fiction, applied theatre, narratives, and mixed medium art, the panelists engage in a critical dialogue to theorize a counter-hegemonic discourse on practices and processes of artists. This discourse is necessary to tease out the ways in which art and research work together as parents to create a 25+ year baby-with-many-names that informs the field of ABER.

Sub Unit

• SIG-Arts-Based Educational Research

Chair

• Joe Norris, Brock University

Papers

• Fiction as a Research Practice and Pedagogical Tool - Patricia Leavy, Self-employed

• Identity Crisis? Employing Applied Theater Examples to Discern the Research in Art and/or the Art in Research - Joe Norris, Brock University

• Considering the Bonds Between Narrative Art and Narrative Inquiry - Candace Jesse Stout, The Ohio State University

• Mixed Medium of Transnational Shuttling and De/colonizing Research - Kakali Bhattacharya, Kansas State University