Walking and Sketchbooks: Arts-Based Research Practices for Novice Educational Researchers

• In Event: 29.082 - Roundtable Session 9
  In Roundtable Session: 29.082-7 - Drawing Upon Arts-Based Educational Research

Abstract

Arts-based educational research (ABER) practices urge qualitative researchers to refocus our gaze by dwelling in liminal spaces. What helps novice researchers learn to visualize the lives they encounter while creating ethnographies? And how do they learn to walk with others in order to absorb and understand the lives they are curious about? This paper will share the results of innovative pedagogical experiments using Walking and Sketchbook activities mixed with Photography, Graphic Journals, Multimodal Fieldnotes, and that were designed to help answer these questions within the context of a doctoral-level course designed for novice researchers. Examples will be discussed as ways to introduce novice qualitative researchers to the benefits of ABER practices and to explore new forms of mentoring novice researchers.

Author

• Thalia Mulvihill, Ball State University