Description:

This course explores the concept and practice of arts-related research as a major qualitative research approach that brings together artistic creativity and scholarly inquiry. It aims to introduce students to various forms of arts-based research methods (e.g. narrative, performative or visual forms of inquiry) by examining their theoretical foundations and providing practical experience for integrating artistic expression in a scholarly research context. Comprehending and communicating human experience while producing cultural work lies at the core of this course.

Keywords:

artistic research, methodology, autoethnography, photovoice, ethnodrama

Objectives (hour):

1. What is Arts-Based Research? – Data Collection Methods in the Arts
2. Data Analysis, Interpretation & Representation
3. Photovoice – Autoethnography – Ethnodrama

Prerequisites/advisable prior knowledge:

n/a.

Evaluation feedback:

Panel discussion

Recommended reading list:

• Barone, Tom and Elliot W. Eisner. (2012). Arts-Based Research. Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications, Inc.
• Leavy, P. (2009). Art meets method: Arts-based research practice. New York: Guilford Press.
• Knowles, Gary and Cole, Ardra. (2008). Handbook of the Arts in Qualitative Research. Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications.

Recommended viewing list:

• Born Into Brothels: Calcutta's Red Light Kids (Zana Briski & Ross Kauffman, 2004)