Dreams and Possibilities of Significant Educational Research: Revisiting the Eisner/Gardner Debates on the Arts-Based Dissertation

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

Between 1996-1998 Elliot Eisner and Howard Gardner debated the merits of the arts-based dissertation over three AERA conferences. Three young scholars who are completing or recently completed their arts-based educational research (ABER) dissertations revisit these questions to reflect on how our epistemological, and perhaps ontological, orientations to research have shifted in this time. The discussant for this session was a participant in the first 1996 Eisner/Gardner session.

Sub Unit

• SIG-Elliot Eisner

Chair

• Richard E. Siegesmund, Northern Illinois University

Papers

• The Evolving Possibilities of Arts-Based Research in Education - Richard E. Siegesmund, Northern Illinois University

• In the Wake of the Arts-Based Educational Research Dissertation: Place, Movement, and Knowledge - Natalie LeBlanc, The University of British Columbia

• An Artistic Lens to Research: Opening Up a Space for Ambiguity, Multiplicity, and Invention - Alison Shields, The University of Victoria

• Philosophizing About Research Through Art: Navigating the Arts-Based Educational Research Dissertation - Jennifer Alice wicks, Concordia University

Discussant

• Robert B. Donmoyer, University of San Diego