Full Description
Arts Based Research is ideal for students, researchers, and practitioners. This unique book provides a framework for broadening the domain of qualitative inquiry in the social sciences by incorporating the arts as a means of better understanding and rethinking important social issues. In the book's 10 thought-provoking chapters, authors Tom Barone and Elliot W. Eisner--pioneers in the field--address key aspects of arts based research, including its purpose and fundamental ideas, controversies that surround the field and the politics and ethics involved, and key criteria for evaluation.
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
1. What Is and What Is Not Arts Based Research?
2. Why Do Arts Based Research?
Arts Based Research Example I: ?Notes From a Marine Biologist?s Daughter?
3. Yes, But Is It Research?
4. Who Can Do Arts Based Research?
5. Who Can Be the Audience for Arts Based Research?
Arts Based Research Example II: ?Broken & Buried in Arkansas?
6. Can Arts Based Research Be Fictive?
7. How Might Arts Based Research Be Both Political and Ethical?
Arts Based Research Example III: ?Ways of Being at Risk"
8. What are Some Criteria for Assessing Arts Based Research?
9. Is There a Place for Theory in Arts Based Research?
10. What Are Some Fundamental Ideas from Arts Based Research?
References
Additional Readings
Index
About the Authors
