Imagination and arts-based practices for integration in research / Nancy Gerber.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gerber, Nancy, author.

Series:

Developing traditions in qualitative inquiry.

Developing traditions in qualitative inquiry

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Imagination.

Research--Methodology.

Research.

Science and the arts.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (91 pages)

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, [2022]

Summary:

Imagination and Arts-Based Practices for Integration in Research explores the philosophical assumptions, defining concepts, and methodological issues related to the introduction of intentional imaginative mental processes and arts-based practices into some or all phases of investigation, and data integration of particular research approaches. Although typically central to mixed, multi-method, and arts-based research, the practice of integrating diverse forms of data might be applied to other research traditions. The integration of data diversity represents a deviation from traditional scientific thinking demanding a dramatic paradigm shift inclusive of multi-dimensional, nondiscursive, aesthetic, rhizomatic, and imaginative mental processes. In this book, imaginative mental processes and arts-based practices are described and illustrated as approaches to investigating, revealing, and understanding the elusive yet essential meanings hidden in the crevices, shadows, and liminal spaces in between diverse data sets leading to integration, illumination, and synthesis. The book will appeal to arts-based, mixed methods, and adventurous researchers. It walks the reader through the revisionist philosophical assumptions and offers aligned methodological suggestions to the induction of imaginative mental processes and arts-based practices into research.

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781003260189

1003260187

9781000587227

1000587223

OCLC:

1296533665