Full Description
Three Approaches to Qualitative Research through the ARtS: Narratives of Teaching for Social Justice and Community incorporates aesthetic education into social justice discourses and advances qualitative research strategies through the medium of three theoretical frameworks: phenomenology, critical ethnographic research, and poststructuralist theories.
Contents
Acknowledgements
List of Illustrations
Introduction
Imagination and the Aesthetic Experience
What Is the Arts Initiative?
Methodological Groundings of This Book
Organization of This Book
Chapter 1: Three Theoretical Approaches to the Arts: Where Our Conversation Begins
Where to Start
Phenomenological Inquiry
Critical Ethnographic Research
Poststructuralist Theories
Methodological Inquiry Questions
Chapter 2: Heart Is Active Citizenship
Metaphors in Phenomenology
Heart and Active Citizenship
The Heart of the Arts: Images of Partnership
Chapter 3: Active Citizenship Is a Shout-Out
Active Citizenship, Solidarity, and Social Change
Vignettes of the Field: From Critical Ethnographic Research Perspectives
Further Considerations
Chapter 4: The Arts Community without Community
The "How" of the Cultural Experience in the Arts
Thinking with Theories and Theories with Thinking
The Concept of Community without Community
Community of Interrelationality
Multiplicities of Community
Community without Community and Social Transformation
Chapter 5: The Arts, Social Justice, & Research Methodology
Issue 1: Open-Ended Inquiry in the Arts
Issue 2: Arts and Equity Issues
Issue 3: Community and Partnership
Issue 4: Towards Methodological Imagination
Active Citizenship and Metaphors
Appendix
References
Index
