Full Description
This book offers reflections from Arts-Based Educational Research (ABER) scholars who, since 2005, were awarded the American Educational Research Association ABER Special Interest Group's Outstanding Dissertation Award. The book includes essays from ten awardees who, across diverse artistic disciplines, share how their ABER careers evolve and succeed—inspiring insights into the possibilities of ABER. It also examines the essential role of mentorship in the academy that supports and expands ABER scholarship. Drawing from dissertation exemplars in the field, this book allows readers to look at how ABER scholars learn with the world while creatively researching and teaching in innovative ways
Contents
Introduction.- Part 1 Making With.- 1 In the Wake of the ABER Dissertation: What I Should Have Said at my/in my Defense.- 2 From Mentorship to Partnership: A 15 year Multigenerational Theatre and Arts-based Qualitative Research Journey.- 3 The Constituting of Questions in Art Based Educational Research and Pedagogy.- 4 Mapping, Method and Meaning: Trajectories of Artistic Research.- 5 Afterglow Anthotypes: Making-with Epistolary Poetics as Arts-based Educational Research.- Part 2 Performing With.- 6 Mentoring a New Generation of Arts-based Researchers: From Inception to Fruition.- 7 "Let my name stand": Black Girlhood as a Method of Survival.- 8 Following the Sparkline.- 9 A Time-Lapse Chromatography and the Biased Reflection of Capillary Action.- Part 3 Being With.- 10 The Brown Girls' Chronicles Ten Years Later: Giving Meaning to Marginalized Voices.- 11 ABER Rising: Constructing Transmediating Code.- 12 Mapping the White Space of the Campus Library.- 13 Peregrinations: One Artist-scholar's Passage with Arts-based Educational research.- Afterword.
