Using Art as Research in Learning and Teaching explores various multidisciplinary visual and performing art forms, including creative writing, as ways to provide a rich contribution and understanding to research, learning and teaching. Key figures in the field share their art-based research, arts practice and philosophy, bringing the arts to life within their taught and learnt contexts across a variety of art forms and levels of post-compulsory education. In what is an invaluable collection, this book is directly beneficial to arts researchers and educators, addressing the key challenges and possibilities in a rapidly changing higher education environment.
Table of Contents:
Foreword
Shaun McNiff
Preface
Ross W. Prior
Chapter 1: Introduction: Artist–Educator–Researcher
Ross W. Prior
Part 1: Aesthetic Education and Ways of Knowing in Art
Chapter 2: Art as a Procedure of Truth
Malcolm Ross
Chapter 3: ‘Not Sure’: The Didactics of Elusive Knowledge
Peter Sinapius
Chapter 4: Art as the Topic, Process and Outcome of Research within Higher Education
Ross W. Prior
Chapter 5: A Different Way of Knowing: Assessment and Feedback in Art-Based Research
Mitchell Kossak
Part 2: Developing Our Practice in Postgraduate Education
Chapter 6: Doing Art-Based Research: An Advising Scenario
Shaun McNiff
Chapter 7: Research–Practice–Pedagogy: Establishing New Topologies of Doctoral Research in the Arts
Jacqueline Taylor
Chapter 8: The ‘Epistemic Object’ in the Creative Process of Doctoral Inquiry
Carole Gray, Julian Malins and Maxine Bristow
Using Art as Research in Learning and Teaching
Chapter 9: Finding My Visual Research Voice: Art as the Tool for Research
Megan Lawton
Part 3: Involving Students and Others in Art as Research
Chapter 10: Making and Material Affect: From Learning and Teaching to Sharing and Listening
Mah Rana and Fiona Hackney
Chapter 11: Using Art to Cultivate ‘Medical Humanities Care’ in Chinese Medical Education
Daniel Vuillermin
Chapter 12: Entanglement in Shakespeare’s Text: Using Interpretive Mnemonics with Acting Students with Dyslexia
Petronilla Whitfield
Chapter 13: Dancing as a Wolf: Art-Based Understanding of Autistic Spectrum Condition
Kevin Burrows
Part 4: Current and Future Issues in Arts Learning and Teaching
Chapter 14: Making Art and Teaching Art: Harnessing the Tension
Libby Byrne and Patricia Fenner
Chapter 15: Future Approaches in Using Artistic Research from Human Experience
Petar Jandric ́ and Sarah Hayes
Notes on Contributors
About the Author :
Ross W. Prior is best known for his book Teaching Actors: Knowledge Transfer in Actor Training (Intellect and University of Chicago Press) and his work in applied arts and health as Founding Principal Editor of the Journal of Applied Arts & Health, established in 2009. In 2015, he was appointed inaugural Professor of Learning and Teaching in the Arts in Higher Education at the University of Wolverhampton, United Kingdom.
Professor Shaun McNiff has a significant international following. He is author of Imagination in Action; Art as Research; Trust the Process; Art as Medicine; Art Heals; Depth Psychology of Art; and numerous other books. His works have been translated into many languages and he has lectured and taught throughout the world. In 1998 he wrote Art-Based Research, documenting his work with artistic knowing beginning in the early 1970s, and the book helped spur fast growth of the discipline. The recipient of numerous prestigious honours and awards, he was appointed as the first University Professor at Lesley University, USA, in 2002.
