Handbook of the Arts in Qualitative Research

Ardra L. Cole is a Professor of Creative Inquiry and Adult Learning within the Program of Adult Education and Community Development at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto. She is also a Co-directors of the Centre for Arts-informed Research (CAIR) in the Department of Adult Education and Counselling Psychology. Ardra has published extensively on life history, reflexive, and arts-informed research as well as in the area of teacher education and development. Her co-authored books include: Through Preservice Teachers' Eyes: Exploring Field Experiences through Narrative and Inquiry (Macmillan); Researching Teaching: Exploring Teacher Development through Reflexive Inquiry (Allyn & Bacon); The Heart of the Matter: Teacher Educators and Teacher Education Reform (Caddo Gap Press); and Lives in Context: The Art of Life History Research (AltaMira Press). They are co-editors of The Arts-informed Inquiry Series (Series Editor, J. Gary Knowles) which includes: The Art of Writing Inquiry (2001); Provoked by Art (2004); The Art of Visual Inquiry (2007); and Creating Scholartistry (2007) (Backalong Books and CAIR), Ardra has helped many graduate students complete arts-informed doctoral and Master's degree theses. Graduates furnished work embodying poetic, fictional, performative, and visual arts inquiry processes and forms in addressing educational and social issues. Ardra, along with others, created several installations portraying life in the academy (Living in Paradox) that were installed in numerous professional / research conferences and institutions. Ardra has published extensively in conventional and non-conventional academic prose and in alternative, scholarly, non-print media throughout her career as a teacher educator and qualitative research methodologist. Ardra's ongoing research (with Maura McIntyre) on care and caregiving and Alzheimer's disease involves multi-media installation-Living and Dying with Dignity: The Alzheimer's Project, performance-Love Stories about Caregiving and Alzheimer's Disease, and the World Wide Web-Putting Care on the Map (www.oise.utoronto.ca/research/mappingcare). Her current writing projects include a series of research-based novellas about the teacher education professoriate, But I Want to make a Difference and Of Dogs and Dissertations: Notes on Writing and Life. As she moves through life in the company of dogs, Ardra continues to learn about the meaning of love, loyalty, and living in the moment.

Part I: Knowing Chapter 1: Art and Knowledge - Elliot Eisner Chapter 2: The Art of Indigenous Knowledge: A Million Porcupines Crying in the Dark - Thomas King Part II: Methodologies Chapter 3: Art-Based Research - Shaun McNiff Chapter 4: Visual Images in Research - Sandra Weber Chapter 5: Arts-informed Research - Ardra L. Cole and J. Gary Knowles Chapter 6: Arts-based Research - Susan Finley Chapter 7: A/R/Tographers and Living Inquiry - Stephanie Springgay, Rita L. Irwin, and Sylvia Kind Chapter 8: Lyric Inquiry - Lorri Neilsen Part III: Genres Chapter 9: Creative Non-fiction and Social Research - Tom Barone Chapter 10: Interpretive Biography - Norman Denzin Chapter 11: Heartful Autoethnography - Karen Scott-Hoy and Carolyn Ellis Chapter 12: Metissage - Cynthia Chambers and Erika Hasebe-Ludt with Dwayne Donald, Wanda Hurren, Carl Leggo, and Antoinette Oberg Chapter 13: Fiction - Stephen Banks Chapter 14: Poetry - Carl Leggo Chapter 15: Dance and Choreography - Donald Blumenfeld-Jones Chapter 16: Performative Inquiry - Ronald J. Pelias Chapter 17: Ethnodrama and Ethnotheatre - Johnny Saldana Chapter18: Readers' Theater - Robert Donmoyer and June Yennie Donmoyer Chapter 19: Music - Liora Bresler Chapter 20: Painting - Graeme Sullivan Chapter 21: Photographs - Claudia Mitchell and Susan Allnutt Chapter 22: Collage - Lynn Butler-Kisber Chapter 23: Textu(r)al Sculpture - Alex F. de Cosson Chapter 24: Installation Art - Ardra Cole and Maura McIntyre Chapter 25: Video - Janice Rahn Chapter 26: Blogs - Robert Runte Chapter 27: Zines - Troy Lovata Chapter 28: Radio - Christine McKenzie Chapter 29: Community Arts - Deborah Barndt Chapter 30: Quilts - Helen K. Ball Part IV: Inquiry Processes Chapter 31: An Indigenous Storywork Methodology - Jo-ann Archibald Chapter 32: Literacy Genres: Housecleaning--A Work with Theoretical Notes - Lorri Neilsen Chapter 33: From Research Analysis to Performance: A Choreographic Process - Mary Beth Cancienne Chapter 34: Image-based Educational Research: Child-like Perspectives - Jon Prosser and Catherine Burke Chapter 35: Exhibiting as Inquiry: Travels of an Accidental - Kathryn Church Chapter 36: No Style, No Composition, No Judgment - Janice Jipson and Nick Paley Part V: Issues and Challenges Chapter 37: Performing Data with Notions of Responsibility - Jim Mienczakowski and Teresa Moore Chapter 38: Ethical Issues and Issues of Ethics - Chris Sinding, Ross Gray, and Jeff Nisker Chapter 39: Interrogating Reflexivity: Art, Research, and the Desire for Presence - Elizabeth de Freitas Chapter 40: Art and Experience: Lessons from Dewey and Hawkins - Valerie J. Janesick Chapter 41: Going Public with Arts-inspired Social Research: Issues of Audience - Tom Barone Chapter 42: Between Scholarship and Art: Dramaturgy and Quality in Arts-related Research - Kelli Jo Kerry-Moran Chapter 43: Money Worries: Challenges of Funding Arts-related Research - Ross Gray and Ardra Cole Chapter 44: Using the Arts to Create a Thesis or Dissertation - J. Gary Knowles and Sara Promislow Part VI: Arts in Research across Disciplines Chapter 45: Anthropology - Ruth Behar Chapter 46: Psychology - Graham E. Higgs Chapter 47: Women's Studies - Lekkie Hopkins Chapter 48: Education - Christine van Halen-Faber and C. T. Patrick Diamond Chapter 49: Social Work - Adrienne Chambon Chapter 50: Nursing - Vangie Bergum and Dianne Godkin Chapter 51: Health-Policy Research - Jeff Nisker Chapter 52: Disability Studies - Esther Ignagni and Kathryn Church Chapter 53: Business Studies - Laura Brearley and Lotte Darso Chapter 54: Sport and Physical Education - Andrew C. Sparkes

"This work's quality, diversity, and breadth of coverage make it a valuable resource for collections concerned with qualitative research in a broad range of disciplines. Highly recommended." -- G.R. Walden * CHOICE *