Image via Wikipedia"Experiential pedagogies in research education: Drawing on engagement with art works"
"Embodied narrative inquiry: A methodology of connection", and
"Toward connectedness: Aesthetically based research" (this one was published in Studies in Art Education, September 2006).
What a treat! And wow were they helpful.
Here is what I am taking away with me:
- Connectedness is something that aesthetics and the arts can lend to qualitative research. Connectedness in the arts offers a means for us to make sense of our relationship with participants AND the scholarly community. Connectedness provides a means to fulfill qualitative research's desire for empathic understanding (verstehen) with which we have long struggled.
- Embodied Narrative Inquiry...by drawing upon arts-based understanding of embodiment to inform qualitative research's use of narrative inquiry we will have access to a much richer conceptualization as researchers. Embodied Narrative Inquiry allows us to make sense of silence/voice; musical/visual; self/other in new ways that can enlarge qualitative research. Considering the nature of sound.. the possibilities of musical improvisation...and the characteristics or qualities of musical presentation--all of these offer ways to flesh out the notion of embodied narrative inquiry.
- Qualitative Research Instruction: In "Experiential pedagogies..." Liora shares a wonderful assignment from her qualitative research course. Students do sustained observations of paintings--one they like and one they dislike. She shares a large number of the comments made in students' journals or papers and discusses the issues in qualitative research that are raised through this exercise. I want to do it in my class! It's a winner.
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