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Art Based Research

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Art therapy and all of the other creative arts therapies have promoted themselves as ways of expressing what cannot be conveyed in conventional language. Why is it that creative arts therapists fail to apply this line of thinking to research? In this exciting and innovative book, Shaun McNiff, one of the field's pioneering educators and authors, breaks new ground in defining and inspiring art-based research. He illustrates how practitioner-researchers can become involved in art-based inquiries during their educational studies and throughout their careers, and shows how new types of research can be created that resonate with the artistic process.Clearly and cogently expressed, the theoretical arguments are illustrated by numerous case examples, and the final part of the book provides a wealth of ideas and thought provoking questions for research.This challenging book will prove invaluable to creative art therapy educators, students, and clinicians who wish to approach artistic inquiry as a way of conducting research. It will also find a receptive audience within the larger research community where there is a rising commitment to expanding the theory and practice of research. Integrating artistic and scientific procedures in many novel ways, this book offers fresh and productive visions of what research can be.
Part 1 Theoretical foundations; the emergence of a new vision of research; from justification to creative inquiry; connections to imaginative science; art's integration of empirical and introspective inquiries; practitioner research. Part 2 Review of art therapy research; breadth of injury; a showing of imagery and experiences; research as a focus in art therapy; artistic knowing in art therapy literature; an overview of research in an art therapy graduate program. Part 3 Research ideas; the method of discovery; practice of research; structure; artistic amplification of case studies; ideas - the effects of aesthetic quality, method studies, histories, outcome assessments.
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