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Arts-Based Research and the Practice of Freedom in Education
Reflections from a Doctoral Course
Series: - Bold Visions in Educational Research, Volume: 80
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This book advocates for the inclusion of arts-based research in doctoral education programs and, indeed, in educational programs at all levels. The doing of art to investigate ideas, situations, and experiences embraces bell hooksâ concept of education as the practice of freedom, a practice in which everyone can learn and every voice counts.
Through the use of photography, collage, painting, sculpture, textile arts and dance, 10 current and former doctoral students who had enrolled in an arts-based research course show and write about how arts-based methods enriched their educational experiences, celebrated their wholeness by dissolving the barriers between their scholar-artist-teacher-activist selves, and affirmed the inner artist even in those who doubted they had one. Furthermore, their work establishes that arts-based research can reveal dimensions of experience that elude traditional research methods.
Contributors are: Michael Alston, Kelly Bare, Shawn F. Brown, Nicholas Catino, Christopher Colón, Abby C. Emerson, Gene Fellner, Francie Johnson, Rendón Ochoa, Ingrid Romero, Mariatere Tapias and Natalie Willens.
Through the use of photography, collage, painting, sculpture, textile arts and dance, 10 current and former doctoral students who had enrolled in an arts-based research course show and write about how arts-based methods enriched their educational experiences, celebrated their wholeness by dissolving the barriers between their scholar-artist-teacher-activist selves, and affirmed the inner artist even in those who doubted they had one. Furthermore, their work establishes that arts-based research can reveal dimensions of experience that elude traditional research methods.
Contributors are: Michael Alston, Kelly Bare, Shawn F. Brown, Nicholas Catino, Christopher Colón, Abby C. Emerson, Gene Fellner, Francie Johnson, Rendón Ochoa, Ingrid Romero, Mariatere Tapias and Natalie Willens.
Gene Fellner, Ph.D., City University of New York. His interests and publications focus on both the importance of arts-based research for teachers and students and on pedagogical practices that empower youth in underserved and oppressed communities to create positive transformational change in themselves and in the world.
Preface: Arts-Based Research and the Practice of Freedom in Education
Acknowledgements
List of Figures
Notes on Contributors
PART 1: The Practice of Arts-Based Research
1 Locked Up for Art
âShawn F. Brown
2 Finding My Way Back to Myself: Dismantling Internalized Structures of Oppression
âAbby C. Emerson
3 Dance Me a Black Identity: An Exploration of Self-Definition and Transformation through Movement
âFrancie Johnson
4 The Schoolie
âMichael Alston
5 Soñando en Comunidad: Reflections on Community, Participatory Art, and Abolitionist Teaching
âMichelle Rendón Ochoa
6 Getting Closer to âUsâ through Collaborative Art-Making
âNatalie Willens and Ingrid Romero
7 When Tensions Arise: Auto-ethnography and Arts-Based Practices
âChristopher Colón
8 Stay in Your Lane: An Arts-Based Research Journey
âKelly Bare
9 Zones of Proximal Comfort: Using Free Improvisation and Graphic Scores to Explore Difference and Dialogue through Active Music Making
âNicholas Catino
10 Towards a Theory of Arts-Based Methods as a Space of Wellbeing and Liberation
âMariatere Tapias
PART 2: Blog Posts: Conversations and Presentations that Took Place While the Class Was in Session
11 The Course and the Book: The Relationship of These Chapters to the Arts-Based Research Course
âKelly Bare, Chris Colón, Mariatere Tapias and Natalie Willens (zoom conversation, 12/12/22)
12 Body Mapping
âMichelle Rendón Ochoa in discussion with Kelly Bare and Gene Fellner (zoom conversation, 3/2/22)
13 Body Mapping 2
âKelly Bare in discussion with Michelle Rendón Ochoa and Gene Fellner (zoom conversation, 3/2/22)
14 Natalieâs Blog: Hand Map/Care Work
âNatalie Willens (Blog 2/19/22)
15 Taking Back Our Bodies and Places/Spaces
âMariatere Tapias (Blog Post 3/23/21)
16 Taking about the Schoolie
âMichael Alston (zoom conversation with class, 7/21/22)
17 Photography and Wheatpasting
âChris Colón in discussion with Francie Johnson and Gene Fellner (zoom conversation, 7/21/22)
18 Graphic Scores, Free Improvisation, and Research
âNicholas Catino (Class Blog, 2/17/21)
19 Thinking about Whiteness
âAbby Emerson (zoom conversation with Gene Fellner, 7/21/22)
20 Art Is Freedom
âShawn F. Brown, a composite of his speech from two presentations at the CUNY Graduate Center, 2018
Index
Acknowledgements
List of Figures
Notes on Contributors
PART 1: The Practice of Arts-Based Research
1 Locked Up for Art
âShawn F. Brown
2 Finding My Way Back to Myself: Dismantling Internalized Structures of Oppression
âAbby C. Emerson
3 Dance Me a Black Identity: An Exploration of Self-Definition and Transformation through Movement
âFrancie Johnson
4 The Schoolie
âMichael Alston
5 Soñando en Comunidad: Reflections on Community, Participatory Art, and Abolitionist Teaching
âMichelle Rendón Ochoa
6 Getting Closer to âUsâ through Collaborative Art-Making
âNatalie Willens and Ingrid Romero
7 When Tensions Arise: Auto-ethnography and Arts-Based Practices
âChristopher Colón
8 Stay in Your Lane: An Arts-Based Research Journey
âKelly Bare
9 Zones of Proximal Comfort: Using Free Improvisation and Graphic Scores to Explore Difference and Dialogue through Active Music Making
âNicholas Catino
10 Towards a Theory of Arts-Based Methods as a Space of Wellbeing and Liberation
âMariatere Tapias
PART 2: Blog Posts: Conversations and Presentations that Took Place While the Class Was in Session
11 The Course and the Book: The Relationship of These Chapters to the Arts-Based Research Course
âKelly Bare, Chris Colón, Mariatere Tapias and Natalie Willens (zoom conversation, 12/12/22)
12 Body Mapping
âMichelle Rendón Ochoa in discussion with Kelly Bare and Gene Fellner (zoom conversation, 3/2/22)
13 Body Mapping 2
âKelly Bare in discussion with Michelle Rendón Ochoa and Gene Fellner (zoom conversation, 3/2/22)
14 Natalieâs Blog: Hand Map/Care Work
âNatalie Willens (Blog 2/19/22)
15 Taking Back Our Bodies and Places/Spaces
âMariatere Tapias (Blog Post 3/23/21)
16 Taking about the Schoolie
âMichael Alston (zoom conversation with class, 7/21/22)
17 Photography and Wheatpasting
âChris Colón in discussion with Francie Johnson and Gene Fellner (zoom conversation, 7/21/22)
18 Graphic Scores, Free Improvisation, and Research
âNicholas Catino (Class Blog, 2/17/21)
19 Thinking about Whiteness
âAbby Emerson (zoom conversation with Gene Fellner, 7/21/22)
20 Art Is Freedom
âShawn F. Brown, a composite of his speech from two presentations at the CUNY Graduate Center, 2018
Index
All interested in art as a method of inquiry and discovery. Teachers of all grades seeking to transform educational institutions into places of joy, excitement, critical thought and activist possibility.