Disruption, Collaboration, and Healing: The Roles of Arts-Based Research in Doctoral Education

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

This session features artist | teacher | researchers from three different institutions whose practices have been transformed by arts-based approaches. Specifically, doctoral students who engaged in the arts as part of their dissertation research. By helping us identify, interrogate, and unsettle the unnatural divide/border between art and science, making art alone and in community continually re-centers and clarifies our understandings of multifaceted selves, others, epistemologies, and cultures. It emboldens us to more fully document the physical and emotional qualities of injustice, analyze our data holistically, and increase methodological transparency in our work. This work transcends positivist notions of what is real, constitutes knowledge, and is of value in educational research.

Sub Unit

• SIG-Arts-Based Educational Research

Chair

• Victoria G. Restler, Rhode Island College

Papers

• Arts-Based Methods as a Means to Disrupt White Supremacy Cultural Values in Research - Abby C. Emerson, Touro University

• Seeing Double Helix: Art Making as Pathway to Humanizing Research Design - Kelly E. Bare, Molloy University

• Tying Knots and Weaving Ends: Toward a Holistic Paradigm of Arts-Based Research - Mariatere Tapias, Graduate Center - CUNY

Discussant

• Asilia K. Franklin-Phipps, SUNY - College at New Paltz