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Handbook of the arts in qualitative research : perspectives, methodologies, examples, and issues / J. Gary Knowles, Ardra L. Cole.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Los Angeles : Sage Publications, c2008.Description: xix, 700 p. : ill. ; 26 cm. + hbkISBN:
  • 9781412905312
  • 1412905311
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 001.42 KNO
Summary: Knowles and Cole bring together the top scholars in qualitative methods to provide a comprehensive overview of where art-based research has come, and where it is going. It addresses the significant issues conceiving and conducting art-based or art-informed research.

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

"This work′s quality, diversity, and breadth of coverage make it a valuable resource for collections concerned with qualitative research in a broad range of disciplines. Highly recommended." --G.R. Walden, CHOICEThe Handbook of the Arts in Qualitative Inquiry: Perspectives, Methodologies, Examples, and Issues represents an unfolding and expanding orientation to qualitative social science research that draws inspiration, concepts, processes, and representational forms from the arts. In this defining work, J. Gary Knowles and Ardra L. Cole bring together the top scholars in qualitative methods to provide a comprehensive overview of the past, present, and future of arts-based research. This Handbook provides an accessible and stimulating collection of theoretical arguments and illustrative examples that delineate the role of the arts in qualitative social science research. Key Features Defines and explores the role of the arts in qualitative social science research: The Handbook presents an analysis of classic and emerging methodologies and approaches that employs the arts in the qualitative research process. Brings together a unique group of scholars: Offering diverse perspectives, contributors to this volume represent a wide range of disciplines including the humanities, media and communication, anthropology, sociology, psychology, women′s studies, education, social work, nursing, and health and medicine. Offers comprehensive coverage of the genres employed by qualitative researchers: Scholars use multiple ways to advance knowledge including literary forms, performance, visual art, various types of media, narrative, folk art, and more. Articulates challenges inherent in alternative methodologies: This volume discusses the issues and challenges faced when employing art in research including ethical issues, academic merit issues, and even funding issues. Intended Audience This is an essential resource for any scholar interested in qualitative research, as well as a critical resource for all academic and public libraries.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Knowles and Cole bring together the top scholars in qualitative methods to provide a comprehensive overview of where art-based research has come, and where it is going. It addresses the significant issues conceiving and conducting art-based or art-informed research.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

  • Part I Knowing
  • Chapter 1 Art and Knowledge
  • Chapter 2 The Art of Indigenous Knowledge: A Million Porcupines Crying in the Dark
  • Part II Methodologies
  • Chapter 3 Art-Based Research
  • Chapter 4 Visual Images in Research
  • Chapter 5 Arts-informed Research
  • Chapter 6 Arts-based Research
  • Chapter 7 A/R/Tographers and Living Inquiry
  • Chapter 8 Lyric Inquiry
  • Part III Genres
  • Chapter 9 Creative Non-fiction and Social Research
  • Chapter 10 Interpretive Biography
  • Chapter 11 Heartful Autoethnography
  • Chapter 12 Métissage
  • Chapter 13 Fiction
  • Chapter 14 Poetry
  • Chapter 15 Dance and Choreography
  • Chapter 16 Performative Inquiry
  • Chapter 17 Ethnodrama and Ethnotheatre
  • Chapter 18 Readers' Theater
  • Chapter 19 Music
  • Chapter 20 Painting
  • Chapter 21 Photographs
  • Chapter 22 Collage
  • Chapter 23 Textu(r)al Sculpture
  • Chapter 24 Installation Art
  • Chapter 25 Video
  • Chapter 26 Blogs
  • Chapter 27 Zines
  • Chapter 28 Radio
  • Chapter 29 Community Arts
  • Chapter 30 Quilts
  • Part IV Inquiry Processes
  • Chapter 31 An Indigenous Storywork Methodology
  • Chapter 32 Literacy Genres: Housecleaning--A Work with Theoretical Notes
  • Chapter 33 From Research Analysis to Performance: A Choreographic Process
  • Chapter 34 Image-based Educational Research: Child-like Perspectives
  • Chapter 35 Exhibiting as Inquiry: Travels of an Accidental
  • Chapter 36 No Style, No Composition, No Judgment
  • Part V Issues and Challenges
  • Chapter 37 Performing Data with Notions of Responsibility
  • Chapter 38 Ethical Issues and Issues of Ethics
  • Chapter 39 Interrogating Reflexivity: Art, Research, and the Desire for Presence
  • Chapter 40 Art and Experience: Lessons from Dewey and Hawkins
  • Chapter 41 Going Public with Arts-inspired Social Research: Issues of Audience
  • Chapter 42 Between Scholarship and Art: Dramaturgy and Quality in Arts-related Research
  • Chapter 43 Money Worries: Challenges of Funding Arts-related Research
  • Chapter 44 Using the Arts to Create a Thesis or Dissertation
  • Part VI Arts in Research across Disciplines
  • Chapter 45 Anthropology
  • Chapter 46 Psychology
  • Chapter 47 Women's Studies
  • Chapter 48 Education
  • Chapter 49 Social Work
  • Chapter 50 Nursing
  • Chapter 51 Health-Policy Research
  • Chapter 52 Disability Studies
  • Chapter 53 Business Studies
  • Chapter 54 Sport and Physical Education

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