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Book SynopsisThe
Arts-Based Research Primer explores the arts-based research paradigm and its potential to intersect with and augment traditional social science and educational research methods. The arts-based research (ABR) paradigm may be broadly understood as a flexible architecture of practice-based theory-building methodologies. This text aims to reveal how arts-based ways of knowing and doing lend themselves to
blended spaces of naturalistic inquiry, and is intended to aid artists and scientists alike in their research and professional practices.
This text also highlights the utility of arts-based research concepts toward building innovative curriculum-making strategies for educational practice both within and beyond the classroom setting. Accessible examples of analytic, synthetic, critical-activist, and improvisational arts-based research methodologies and their outcomes were solicited from a wide range of researchers in varying disciplines, including senior faculty and em
Table of ContentsContents: A Paradigm Analysis of Arts-Based – Research – A Flexible Theory-Building Architecture for Arts-Based Research – Arts-Based Research as Analytic Research Practice – Arts-Based Research as Synthetic Research Practice – Arts-Based Research as Critical-Activist Research Practice – Arts-Based Research as Improvisatory Research Practice – References and Further Resources.
