Arts-Research-Education

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Series Description:The volumes in this series inform the readers of the expansive research being conducted using a variety of forms of Arts Based Educational Research, drawing from all disciplines and all forms and practices -the literary, visual, and performing arts.The series includes Arts Based Educational Research that takes place in academic and non-academic settings, as well as be based in practices that are individual and collaborative, private and public. The epistemological, ontological and axiological explorations of the methodologies as well as issues of the representation and dissemination of Arts Based Educational Research will be engaged with and explored. The hinge connecting the arts and research in this Arts Based Educational Research book series is education, being understood in its broadest sense, as learning / transformation / change that takes place in diverse formal and informal settings, as having an impact on and with humans in such a way as to limit and/or assist their conscious awareness and produce new understandings for them to act with and upon the world. This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. The publisher, the authors and the editors are safe to assume that the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication. Neither the publisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made. The publisher remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations. Approaches to educational research in the American educational research community have become increasingly diverse over the past quarter century. Among the approaches taken to the study of educational phenomena is what is called arts-based educational research (ABER). This approach to research is rooted in the methodologies and epistemologies of the arts and the humanities. This Institute will address ways of thinking about the construction of knowledge and the forms of understanding that research rooted in artistic considerations makes possible. Topics will include the nature of ABER, the contexts in which it may be employed, its underlying epistemology, its attributes and potential liabilities, the forms of representation availa...