Arts based research in education

Cadiz, 20 -09-2012 Teresa Eca

Painting Elizabeth Leite

... Both art and science are thoroughly empirical and immersed in the physical manipulation of material substances that are carefully observed (McNiff, 1998).

Photography by Elizabeth Leite

The researcher builds a complex, holistic picture, analyzes words, studies detailed views of informants, and conducts the study in a natural setting (Creswell 199, pp. 15)

Photography by Elizabeth Leite

There is an art to listening to our lives. Research is not only an outward endeavour, but it travels in the realm of re-searching our own lives, knowledge, passions, and practice.

Photography by Elizabeth Leite

the use and collection of a variety of empirical materials that describe routine and problematic moments and meanings in individuals lives.

A wide range of interconnected interpretive practices, in order to get a better understanding of the subject matter at hand.

Painting Elisabeth Leite

...each practice produce a different interpretation of the world

Painting Elizabeth Leite

Bringing Art Inquiry

processes to Research

bring artistic tools and means of inquiry integrating research methodologies such as for example autobiographical inquiry, narrative inquiry, and performative inquiry
Painting Elisabeth Leite

The arts, become a place not only of writing up the research, but also offer a method for deepening and shifting the perceptions and understandings,

Lisa Kay's research journal

contiguity, living inquiry, metaphor, metonymy, openings, reverberations, excess....

Group Interaction C3 Santiago de Compostela

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Teresa Eca editor2@insea.org