Community, Creativity, Curiosity: An Interactive Demonstration and Workshop Exploring Participatory, Arts-Based Methods Across Diverse Contexts

Session Type: Demonstration/Performance

Abstract

In this demonstration and workshop session, presenters will showcase creative, arts-based research methods employed across a range of diverse, equity-oriented projects. Audience members will reflect, practice, and discuss how such methods can enliven their own practices. We will demonstrate four artistically-grounded projects committed to epistemological justice, educational equity, and community-driven knowledge, including youth-created visual analysis of health, safety, and racism in U.S. high schools; embodied storytelling of African diasporic food practices; computational quilt-making for equitable STEM learning; and youth-led curation of Hip Hop history in New Delhi, India. The session will create space for participants to question, imagine, and discuss the ethical and practical dimensions of arts-based and participatory methods in educational research.

Sub Unit

• Division D - Measurement and Research Methodologies / Division D - Section 3: Qualitative Research Methods

Chairs

• Bethany Monea, University of the District of Columbia

• Meagan Call-Cummings, Johns Hopkins University

Participant

• Grace D. Player, University of Connecticut

Papers

• Embodied Storytelling: Exploring the Possibilities of Performance - OreOluwa Badaki, Teachers College, Columbia University

• Visual and Video Analysis with the Youth Research Council - Meagan Call-Cummings, Johns Hopkins University; Bethany Monea, University of the District of Columbia; Courtney Bell, George Mason University

• Reimagining Technology Myths using Restorying through Design - Mia Shaw, New York University; Francisco Castro, New York University; Kayla DesPortes, New York University; YoungSoon Takei, Berea College

• Creating and Curating Resources as an Artistic Practice - Rabani Garg, University of Pennsylvania