Epistemological Explorations Through Collage

• In Event: Arts-Based Mentoring and Reflections

Abstract

This study explores how arts-based educational research (ABER) provided opportunities to engage in examining my epistemological stances, origins, influences, and accept responsibilities for learning. Drawing from my experiences in learning qualitative research, I will share my epistemological explorations through using visual arts. Analyses of the reflection journals I kept and the art pieces I created demonstrate the impact of my personal epistemologies on learning of qualitative research, the responsibility I took as a researcher to explore ways to foster reflexivity, and to engage in experiential learning. The representation of the findings of this study will be a collage created based on the analyses of textual and visual data.

Author

• Inci Yilmazli Trout, University of the Incarnate Word