Practice-Based Reflections of Enabling Agency through Arts-Based Methodological Ir/Responsibility

• Published in: Arts-Based Methods in Education Around the World pp. 153 - 181
• Main Author: Belluigi, Dina Zoe
• Format: Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Denmark Routledge 2018; River Publishers
• Edition: 1
• Subjects: Warranted Assertability; Including Art Making; African American Quilts; PhD Research Project; Data Generation Methods; Critical Reflective Teachers; Gateways; Postcards; Critical Discourse Analysis; Arts Based Research Methods; Data Generation; Psychological Projective Tests; Researcher Participant Interactions; Visual Narratives; Data Generation Processes; Small Group Discussions; Held; Elastic Skin; Super-complex World; Practice Based Research; Concerted Efforts; Educational Research Conventions; Educational Development Work; Imagery Rescripting
• ISBN: 9788793609389; 8793609388
• DOI: 10.1201/9781003337263-7

Arts-based methods are well-placed to enable disruptions to normative positioning of researcher, respondent and subject. This chapter draws on the author's reflections of opening the research processes to the possibilities of methodological ir/responsibility. It focuses on a selection of mixed-method projects where a significant contribution to the validity of the empirical research emerged from the arts-based methods employed, including the use of journal writing, story-telling, metaphoric and visual imagery. The discussion is structured around the validity of the methods for the purposes of generating data to inform the evaluation of and research on that which is often difficult and elusive to analyse in higher education. A particular contribution of the chapter is the discussion of how the construction of research participants informed both the data generation processes, and the analytic approach to the texts they authored. An argument is made for the importance of establishing conditions which enable the possibilities of participants' agency.