Qualitative Research: An Introduction to Methods and Designs

Key Ideas

• Arts-based research is an approach to social research that employs premises, principles, and procedures that derive primarily from the arts (visual, literary, and performance based) rather than the social sciences.
• Arts-based researchers may either craft a research text that itself contains aesthetic or literary qualities or analyze the works of others (for example, students) in the manner of art critics.
• The primary purpose for engaging in arts-based research is to enable an audience to question commonplace educational or social phenomena, to perceive these from a different perspective, and to reflect deeply.
• Audience members make naturalistic generalizations by relating facets of the research text to analogous social phenomena with ...