Practical Ethics for Arts-Based Researchers

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

This session investigates the ethical doing of arts-based educational research practice in professional, academic, and community settings. We describe the complexity of doing inquiry within and against the traditions of art and research and the possibilities for creating aesthetic and empathic awareness. The panel will engage with a range of topics including developing projects with or without the approval of IRB boards, collaborating with professional artists, doing justice through community-based productions of Forum Theatre, and critically engaging with scripted one-act plays. Arts-based research is one of the most powerful tools researchers may engage to help people, in the words of the AERA call, “imagine forward.” We hope to create rich dialogue about the possibilities and ethics of our work.

Sub Unit

• SIG-Arts-Based Educational Research

Chair

• Matthew Yanko, University of British Columbia

Papers

• Aesthetic Autonomy and Ethical Constraint in Arts-Based Educational Research - Richard E. Siegesmund, Northern Illinois University

• Performing Ethics for Scholar/Artists - Charles F. Vanover, University of South Florida

• Non-Joking Matters: The Ethics of Performance-Based Research - Vonzell Agosto, University of South Florida; Maria Migueliz Valcarlos, Eastern New Mexico University; Tara M. Nkrumah, Arizona State University; LaSonja Roberts, Western Michigan University

• Critical Arts-Based Research - Kristin Kusanovich, Santa Clara University; Jerome A. Cranston, University of Saskatchewan

Discussant

• Matthew Yanko, University of British Columbia