Disrupting Qualitative Inquiry: Possibilities and Tensions of Art-Based Educational Research

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

This symposium examines the possibilities and tensions encountered by scholars who adopt arts based methods in the study of education. Despite the proliferation of critical and indigenous methodologies which view research as activism and a vehicle of social change, educational research continues to be dominated by traditional approaches to qualitative inquiry, approaches anchored in post-positivist and constructivist assumptions of data, analysis, representation, and knowledge production (Brown, Carducci, & Kuby, in press; Pasque, Carducci, Kuntz, & Gildersleeve, 2012). To disrupt the status quo and advance social justice aims, this symposium addresses various issues within the field of arts based research with the goal of making a deep, wide, and sustained impact on its development as a field of study.

Sub Unit

• SIG-Arts-Based Educational Research

Chair

• Ruth Nicole Brown, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Papers

• Always Already Inquiry: A/r/tography as a Disruptive Methodology - Teri J. Holbrook, Georgia State University; Nicole Manry Pourchier, Georgia State University

• “Our Photos Are for Us First”: The Framing of a Black Girl’s Truth - Claudine Olivia Taaffe, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

• “She Came at Me Wreckless!” Wreckless Theatrics as Disruptive Methodology - Ruth Nicole Brown, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

• Crystallization as a Methodology: Disrupting Traditional Ways of Analyzing and (Re)presenting Through Multiple Genres - Candace Ross Kuby, University of Missouri - Columbia