Arts-Based Educational Research Trajectories

This book offers reflections from Arts-Based Educational Research (ABER) scholars who, since 2005, were awarded the American Educational Research Association ABER Special Interest Group's Outstanding Dissertation Award. The book includes essays from ten awardees who, across diverse artistic disciplines, share how their ABER careers evolve and succeed-inspiring insights into the possibilities of ABER. It also examines the essential role of mentorship in the academy that supports and expands ABER scholarship. Drawing from dissertation exemplars in the field, this book allows readers to look at how ABER scholars learn with the world while creatively researching and teaching in innovative ways "This text is remarkable for the immense diversity of situating creativity as inquiry in educational research from multiple cultural, theoretical, and substantive perspectives. The scholars in this text demonstrate the interdisciplinary understanding and enactmentof Arts-Based Educational Research, thus allowing the work to exceed the boundaries of education in generative ways. This text is also a pedagogical text that can be used to teach multiple graduate-level classes within education and beyond. Most importantly, this text creates a fertile ground for cognitive, affective, and spiritual shifts that are transformative, offering the reader possibilities for inquiry that exceed traditional expectations." - Kakali Bhattacharya, Professor. Qualitative Research Program. Research, Evaluation, Measurement. College of Education, University of Florida "Arts-Based Educational Research Trajectories provides a historically-situated, intergenerational account of ABER, calling attention to how it has - over the last 30 years - forged its space in the academy and among researchers. The essays highlight the art, creativity, and scholarship of ABER as contributors engage storytelling, textual and visual inquiry and reflect on their ABER journeys. ABER Trajectories is the book I needed as a budding ABER scholar, and I am overjoyed to know it is in the world now, further cementing the legitimacy already known to and felt by the scholars who embrace it!" - Qiana Cutts, PhD, Mississippi State University. Arts- Based Educational Research Chair, 2021-2023

Auteur

Barbara Bickel, Ph.D., is Associate Professor of Art Education, Emerita at Southern Illinois University and Co-founder of Studio M*: A Research Creation Lab Intersecting Arts, Culture and Healing currently based in Canada. She is an artist-researcher-teacher, and is co-founder and former Editor-In-Chief of the Springer book series Studies in Arts-Based Educational Research, as well as co-founder and Senior Editor of Artizein: Arts and Teaching Journal. She is author of Art, Ritual and Trance Inquiry: Arational Learning in an Irrational World, co-author with R. Michael Fisher of Art-Care Practices for Restoring the Communal: Education, Co-Inquiry and Healing and co-editor with Susan Walsh and Carl Leggo of the book Arts-Based and Contemplative Practices in Research and Teaching: Honoring Presence.

Dr. Rita L. Irwin is Artist, Researcher and Teacher deeply committed to the arts and education. She is Distinguished University Scholar and Professor of Art Education in the Department of Curriculum and Pedagogy at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Rita served as Associate Dean of Teacher Education at UBC from 2005-2015 and Head of the Department of Curriculum Studies from 1999-2005. Rita has been Educational Leader for a number of provincial, national and international organizations including being President of the Canadian Society for the Study of Education, Canadian Association of Curriculum Studies, Canadian Society for Education through Art and the International Society for Education through Art. Richard Siegesmund is Professor of Art+Design Education, Emeritus at Northern Illinois University. He holds a Ph.D. in Art Education from Stanford University. From 2001-2011, he served at the University of Georgia, Lamar Dodd School of Art. His scholarship deals with arts-based research methodology, aesthetics as a philosophy of care and how these research directions lead to anew conception of visual literacy as a fundamental human skill. With Melisa Cahnmann-Taylor, he co-edited "Arts-Based Research in Education: Foundations for Practice." The second edition of this book came out in 2018. His journal articles have appeared in Phi Delta Kappan, Studies in Art Education and the International Journal of Art & Design Education. He is also former President of Integrative Teaching International, an organization that seeks to reimagine the first-year learning outcomes of post-secondary art and design education. He has twice been Fulbright Scholar and has received fellowship awards from the Getty Education Institute for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts. As Distinguished Fellow of the National Art Education Association, he is also a recipient of the organization's Manuel Barkan Memorial Award for significance of published research.