Full Description
Using Art as Research in Learning and Teaching explores various multidisciplinary visual and performing art forms, including creative writing, as ways to provide a rich contribution and understanding to research, learning and teaching. Key figures in the field share their art-based research, arts practice and philosophy, bringing the arts to life within their taught and learnt contexts across a variety of art forms and levels of post-compulsory education. In what is an invaluable collection, this book is directly beneficial to arts researchers and educators, addressing the key challenges and possibilities in a rapidly changing higher education environment.
Contents
Foreword
Shaun McNiff
Preface
Ross W. Prior
Chapter 1: Introduction: Artist-Educator-Researcher
Ross W. Prior
Part 1: Aesthetic Education and Ways of Knowing in Art
Chapter 2: Art as a Procedure of Truth
Malcolm Ross
Chapter 3: 'Not Sure': The Didactics of Elusive Knowledge
Peter Sinapius
Chapter 4: Art as the Topic, Process and Outcome of Research within Higher Education
Ross W. Prior
Chapter 5: A Different Way of Knowing: Assessment and Feedback in Art-Based Research
Mitchell Kossak
Part 2: Developing Our Practice in Postgraduate Education
Chapter 6: Doing Art-Based Research: An Advising Scenario
Shaun McNiff
Chapter 7: Research-Practice-Pedagogy: Establishing New Topologies of Doctoral Research in the Arts
Jacqueline Taylor
Chapter 8: The 'Epistemic Object' in the Creative Process of Doctoral Inquiry
Carole Gray, Julian Malins and Maxine Bristow
Using Art as Research in Learning and Teaching
Chapter 9: Finding My Visual Research Voice: Art as the Tool for Research
Megan Lawton
Part 3: Involving Students and Others in Art as Research
Chapter 10: Making and Material Affect: From Learning and Teaching to Sharing and Listening
Mah Rana and Fiona Hackney
Chapter 11: Using Art to Cultivate 'Medical Humanities Care' in Chinese Medical Education
Daniel Vuillermin
Chapter 12: Entanglement in Shakespeare's Text: Using Interpretive Mnemonics with Acting Students with Dyslexia
Petronilla Whitfield
Chapter 13: Dancing as a Wolf: Art-Based Understanding of Autistic Spectrum Condition
Kevin Burrows
Part 4: Current and Future Issues in Arts Learning and Teaching
Chapter 14: Making Art and Teaching Art: Harnessing the Tension
Libby Byrne and Patricia Fenner
Chapter 15: Future Approaches in Using Artistic Research from Human Experience
Petar Jandric ́ and Sarah Hayes
Notes on Contributors
