Arts-Based Research and the Practice of Freedom in Education : Reflections from a Doctoral Course / edited by Gene Fellner.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Fellner, Gene, editor.

Series:

Bold visions in educational research ; Volume 80.

Bold Visions in Educational Research Series ; Volume 80

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Education--Research.

Education.

Arts in education.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (212 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Leiden : Brill, [2025]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Arts-Based Research and the Practice of Freedom in Education 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, Mariatere Tapias and Natalie Willens.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Acknowledgements

Figures

Notes on Contributors

Introduction: Arts-Based Research and the Practice of Freedom in Education

The Arts-Based Research Course

The Organization of the Book

References

Part 1: The Practice of Arts-Based Research

1. Locked Up for Art

Abstract

Keywords

1 A Ghetto Child

2 Letters from Dad

3 Blog Post from Arts-Based Research Course (2/27/18)

4 Art as Therapy

5 Art Don't Pay Bills

6 Professor G-Money

7 Keeping My Brothers

8 I Ain't Goin' Back

Note

2. Finding My Way Back to Myself: Dismantling Internalized Structures of Oppression

1 Whiteness Is Intentional

2 Is Whiteness Ever Done?

3 Whiteness Gains Momentum, Regenerates

3. Dance Me a Black Identity: An Exploration of Self-Definition and Transformation through Movement

1 Arts-Based Research, Embodied Knowledge and Performance as Study

2 The Inquiry Process

3 Stage 1: Embodied Knowledge from Black Choreographers

4 Stage 2: A Solo Inquiry of Improvisation and Reflection

5 Exploration in Silence

6 Exploration with Music

7 A Concluding Definition?

4. The Schoolie

1 The Project

2 The Power of Images to Construct Profound Relationships

3 Images Inspire Critical Consciousness of Research Participants

4 Images Catalyze Storytelling in Research

5 Images Helped Establish Dialog between Conflicting Narratives and Centers of Power

6 An Update and Conclusion

Notes

5. Soñando en Comunidad: Reflections on Community, Participatory Art, and Abolitionist Teaching

1 Las Raices

2 The Project

3 The Context

4 Challenges and Opportunities Encountered.

5 The Transformative Power of Participatory Art

6 Connections to Abolitionist Teaching

7 Art Is Healing. Art Creates Community. Art Is Resistance

6. Getting Closer to "Us" through Collaborative Art-Making

1 Blurring Borders: Collaborative Discovery with Ingrid

2 Coming into the Project (by Ingrid)

3 Rallying Together

4 Sharing Our Stories

5 Weaving the We

6 Co-Mentorship: Redefining/Re-Membering Ourselves

7 Wrapping Up

8 Reflections: The importance of Arts-Based Research in Graduate Education

7. When Tensions Arise: Auto-Ethnography and Arts-Based Practices

8. Stay in Your Lane: An Arts-Based Research Journey

1 Step One: Connect with the Memory of Learning How to Walk

2 KB's Autoethnographic Atlas, March 22, 2022

3 Blending Art into Scholarship. How Does the Practice of Freedom Happen?

4 Toward Community-Engaged Study: Committing to a Personal Practice

5 Holding Hands: Finding the Courage to Connect

6 Another Kind of Constellation: My Vision for Collective Scholarship

7 Hands and Feet Together

9. Zones of Proximal Comfort: Using Free Improvisation and Graphic Scores to Explore Difference

1 Creating Graphic Scores: Pushing Myself Out of My Comfort Zone

2 Student-Created Scores

3 Folding Arts-Based Research into My Teaching Practice

4 Painting as Arts-Based Research

5 Embracing a New Outlook

10. Towards a Theory of Arts-Based Methods as a Space of Wellbeing and Liberation

1 Approach to Art

2 Why Do Arts-Based Educational Research?

3 Three Patchworks to Stage Freedom

4 Prologue: Confronting the Epistemological Bully

5 Patchwork 1: Bird Preening, Lessons Learned.

6 Patchwork 2: P is for Painting Paradigms

7 Patchwork 3: Disrupting Institutional Erasure

8 Methods: Giving Shape to Radical Possibilities

9 The Art of Unknotting: Next Steps for Wellbeing and Liberation

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

12. Body Mapping

13. Body Mapping 2

14. Natalie's Blog: Hand Map/Care Work

1 Mapping in Bed

15. Taking Back Our Bodies and Places/Spaces

16. Taking about the Schoolie

17. Photography and Wheatpasting

18. Graphic Scores, Free Improvisation, and Research

19. Thinking about Whiteness

20. Art Is Freedom

Index.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

90-04-71024-8

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004710245 DOI