Full Description
This book advocates for the inclusion of arts-based research in doctoral education programs and, indeed, in educational programs at all levels. The doing of art to investigate ideas, situations, and experiences embraces bell hooks' concept of education as the practice of freedom, a practice in which everyone can learn and every voice counts.
Through the use of photography, collage, painting, sculpture, textile arts and dance, 10 current and former doctoral students who had enrolled in an arts-based research course show and write about how arts-based methods enriched their educational experiences, celebrated their wholeness by dissolving the barriers between their scholar-artist-teacher-activist selves, and affirmed the inner artist even in those who doubted they had one. Furthermore, their work establishes that arts-based research can reveal dimensions of experience that elude traditional research methods.
Contributors are: Michael Alston, Kelly Bare, Shawn F. Brown, Nicholas Catino, Christopher Colón, Abby C. Emerson, Gene Fellner, Francie Johnson, Rendón Ochoa, Ingrid Romero, Mariatere Tapias and Natalie Willens.
Contents
Preface: Arts-Based Research and the Practice of Freedom in Education
Acknowledgements
List of Figures
Notes on Contributors
PART 1: The Practice of Arts-Based Research
1 Locked Up for Art
Shawn F. Brown
2 Finding My Way Back to Myself: Dismantling Internalized Structures of Oppression
Abby C. Emerson
3 Dance Me a Black Identity: An Exploration of Self-Definition and Transformation through Movement
Francie Johnson
4 The Schoolie
Michael Alston
5 Soñando en Comunidad: Reflections on Community, Participatory Art, and Abolitionist Teaching
Michelle Rendón Ochoa
6 Getting Closer to "Us" through Collaborative Art-Making
Natalie Willens and Ingrid Romero
7 When Tensions Arise: Auto-ethnography and Arts-Based Practices
Christopher Colón
8 Stay in Your Lane: An Arts-Based Research Journey
Kelly Bare
9 Zones of Proximal Comfort: Using Free Improvisation and Graphic Scores to Explore Difference and Dialogue through Active Music Making
Nicholas Catino
10 Towards a Theory of Arts-Based Methods as a Space of Wellbeing and Liberation
Mariatere Tapias
PART 2: Blog Posts: Conversations and Presentations that Took Place While the Class Was in Session
11 The Course and the Book: The Relationship of These Chapters to the Arts-Based Research Course
Kelly Bare, Chris Colón, Mariatere Tapias and Natalie Willens (zoom conversation, 12/12/22)
12 Body Mapping
Michelle Rendón Ochoa in discussion with Kelly Bare and Gene Fellner (zoom conversation, 3/2/22)
13 Body Mapping 2
Kelly Bare in discussion with Michelle Rendón Ochoa and Gene Fellner (zoom conversation, 3/2/22)
14 Natalie's Blog: Hand Map/Care Work
Natalie Willens (Blog 2/19/22)
15 Taking Back Our Bodies and Places/Spaces
Mariatere Tapias (Blog Post 3/23/21)
16 Taking about the Schoolie
Michael Alston (zoom conversation with class, 7/21/22)
17 Photography and Wheatpasting
Chris Colón in discussion with Francie Johnson and Gene Fellner (zoom conversation, 7/21/22)
18 Graphic Scores, Free Improvisation, and Research
Nicholas Catino (Class Blog, 2/17/21)
19 Thinking about Whiteness
Abby Emerson (zoom conversation with Gene Fellner, 7/21/22)
20 Art Is Freedom
Shawn F. Brown, a composite of his speech from two presentations at the CUNY Graduate Center, 2018
Index
