Story, Trace, and Resistance: Arts-Based and Culturally Rooted Interventions in Qualitative Research

• In Event: AERA Roundtable Session Wednesday 3:45 pm - Gold 3

Session Type: Roundtable Session

Abstract

This roundtable features scholars advancing arts-based and culturally rooted frameworks that challenge dominant research paradigms. Papers introduce iyagi as a Korean storytelling methodology for understanding bilingual children, research-creation as a tool for tracing transformative aesthetic experience in French arts education, and zine-making as slow scholarship that resists neoliberal academic pressures. Collectively, these works center relationality, creativity, and epistemological specificity. They reframe qualitative method as an embodied, narrative, and resistant act—one that honors cultural context, values lived experience, and invites new rhythms of research, memory, and meaning.

Sub Unit

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

Papers

• A Way of Knowing: Iyagi as a Qualitative Research Framework to Understand Bilingual Children - Pyeongeun Kim, Michigan State University

• Zine-making as Slow Scholarship: A Critical Qualitative Intervention - Sharla Berry, California State University - Long Beach