Cultivating Critical Arts-Based Projects for Equitable Graduate Research Preparation for the 21st Century and Beyond

• In Event: AERA Roundtable Session 14
  In Roundtable Session: Criticality and Activism Using Arts-Based Educational Research Methods (Table 9)

Abstract

This paper captures how four BIPOC student researchers and their Black woman professor used critical arts-based research methods to resist policies and systems predisposed to BIPOC’s dispossession in academia. The arts utilized to our purpose were: songwriting, art collage, theatre, and podcast. We determined these methods to be in tune with our researcher selves, which allowed for a more equitable approach to research. Our artistic modalities represent “. . .unique means for enhancing the educational perspectives of audience members by successfully communicating the ineffable dimensions of experiences...” (Barone & Eisner, 1997, p. 101) that our communities endure within schools/institutions. By encouraging the spread of arts-based research we may create new ways of knowing and pose new emancipatory questions, transforming the field.

Authors

• Marcus North, Georgia State University

• Luiz Barcellos, Georgia State University

• Christian Valdez, Georgia State University

• Lauren Jaramillo, Georgia State University