ABSTRACT

In company with its sister volume, this book explores arts-based approaches to research across media, including film and comics-related material, from a variety of geographic locations and across a range of subdisciplines within the field of education. This second volume has a focus exclusively on visual output and image-based research and methods.

The book aims to highlight some of the approaches that are not always centered in arts-based research. The visual takes center stage as authors lead with comics-based representations, among other forms of arts-based inquiry. These chapters follow on from the first collection and serve to expand thinking about merging creative methods with analysis and exploration in the world of education. From mixtapes to the curatorial, these chapters showcase the ways in which scholars explore the multitude of human experiences. This second volume covers, among other topics: comics in qualitative research, visual journaling, multimodal fieldnotes and discourse, and creative visual outputs.

It is suitable reading for graduate students and scholars interested in qualitative inquiry and arts-based methods, in education and the social sciences.

part I|83 pages

Comics and Static Visuals

chapter 2|10 pages

Classroom Marvels

Exploring Comics in Middle School Literacy Instruction

chapter 3|15 pages

What Drawing Can Lead Us to See

Drawing Cartoons with Student Researchers

chapter 4|16 pages

Bringing Children's Play into Literacy Events

Critical Multimodal Discourse Analysis as a Tool for Understanding Arts-Based Activities

part II|36 pages

Journals and Notes in the Field

chapter 6|16 pages

Visual Journaling as Method

chapter 7|18 pages

When a Single Song Just Won't Do

The Mixtape as Research Methodology

part III|44 pages

Exploring (Even) Further Methods

chapter 8|14 pages

Through the Looking-glass

Writing and Reading Multimodal Field Notes

chapter 9|14 pages

Arts-Based Research Beyond Representation

The Concepts of Curating and the Curatorial

chapter 10|14 pages

Resilience and Solidarity Building on Instagram

Exploring Art and Activism with Indigenous Peoples and 2SLGBTQ+ Youth in the Wabanaki Confederacy