Visualizing Lives, Labyrinths, and Spiritwalking: Arts-Based Research Practices for Mentoring Doctoral Students

• In Event: Roundtable Session 54
  In Roundtable Session: Practice and Arts-Based Research

Abstract

Arts-based research practices urge qualitative researchers to refocus our gaze by creating and dwelling in liminal spaces. What helps novice researchers learn to visualize the lives they become engaged with while creating ethnographies? And how do they learn to walk with others in order to absorb and understand the lives they are curious about? This paper will share the results of innovative pedagogical experiments using Photography, Graphic Journals, Multimodal Fieldnotes, Mentoring Walks, and Collaborative Playbuilding that were designed to help answer these questions within the context of a doctoral-level course designed for novice researchers. Examples will be discussed as ways to introduce novice qualitative researchers to the benefits of Arts-Based Research practices and to explore new forms of mentoring students.

Author

• Thalia Mulvihill, Ball State University