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Book Synopsis

Provoking the Field invites debate on, and provides an essential resource for, transnational arts-based scholars engaged in critical analyses of international visual arts education and its enquiry in doctoral research. Divided into three parts – doctoral processes, doctoral practices and doctoral programmes – the volume interrogates education in both formal and informal learning environments, ranging from schools to post-secondary institutions to community and adult education.

This book brings together a global range of authors to examine visual arts PhDs using diverse theoretical perspectives; innovative arts and hybrid methodologies; institutional relationships and scholarly practices; and voices from the field in the form of site-specific cases. A compendium of leading voices in arts education, Provoking the Field provides a diverse range of perspectives on arts enquiry, and a comprehensive study of the state of visual arts PhDs in education.



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'[Provoking the Field] is comprised of a series of case studies that illustrate the wide variety and richness of arts-based research undertaken as part of international doctoral programmes in education. One strength of this publication is the impressive range of nationalities that are included in the book; examples of doctoral programmes are represented from all parts of the globe. It is clear that attempts have been made to avoid an ethnocentric perspective on the subject.

This book will be important to those doctorate students who intend using visual arts methods to explore educational research questions. […] New Ph.D. supervisors would also find Provoking the Field: International Perspectives on Visual Arts PhDs in Education a valuable asset when developing their own supervisory practice.'

-- Samantha Broadhead, Art, Design & Communication in Higher Education

Table of Contents

Introduction

Part 1: Provoking Doctoral Processes

Chapter 1: The Knowledge Creation Spectrum

Michael Biggs

Chapter 2" Interpolation and Relationality: Extending the Field through Creative Arts and Indigenous Research Approaches

Estelle Barrett

Chapter 3: Transformative Interventions: Creative Practices in an Education Doctorate Programme

Jeff Adams and Emma Arya-Manesh

Chapter 4: Art-Based Action Research: Participatory Art Education Research for the North

Timo Jokela, Maria Huhmarniemi and Mirja Hiltunen

Chapter 5: Researching the Unknown through Arts-Based Research to Promote Pedagogical Imagination

Fernando Hernández-Hernández

Chapter 6: Taking Shape: Visual Appearance and Theory

Brooke Hofsess, Karina Riddett and Richard Siegesmund

Part 2: Provoking Doctoral Practices

Chapter 7: When is a Red Shoe not a Red Shoe? Conceptual Framing and the Consequences for the 'Object' in Virtual Research

Barbara Bolt

Chapter 8: How Can Artistic Research (Still) Be Disruptive?

Natalia Calderón

Chapter 9: Artmaking as Entanglement: Conceptualising Agency through a Diffractive Methodology

Ramya Ravisankar

Chapter 10: A/R/Tographic Rhythm: Opening Conversations of Resistance and Accommodation as Scholarly Provocation

Anita Sinner, Verónica Sahagún Sánchez, Jennifer Wicks and Darlene St. Georges

Chapter 11: To Reach the Unreached: Rhythms of Issues, Reflections, Writings and Art Practices

Jo Chiung Hua Chen

Chapter 12: Artistic Event as Pedagogy

Belidson Dias and Tatiana Fernández

Chapter 13: Parsing Creative Influence through Comparative Visual Research Methods

Justin B. Makemson

Chapter 14: Artworks in Residence: Semiosis, Transmediation and ZPD

Julie Wren, Susan Wright and Marnee Watkins

Chapter 15: Connections, Disruptions and Reconfigurations: The Implications of Aesthetic Experience for Doctoral Research in the Visual Arts

Boyd White and April Mandrona

Part 3: Provoking Doctoral Programmes

Chapter 16: Navigating Ethics Protocols for Artistic Research: Strategies for Graduate Student Researchers

Lorrie Blair

Chapter 17: Examining the Case for Artful Participatory Inquiry in the Visual Art Education Doctorate

Kathryn Grushka and Allyson Holbrook

Chapter 8: Some Iberian Perspectives about Arts-Based and Artistic Research in Arts Education

Teresa Torres de Eça and ngela Saldanha

Chapter 19: Finnish Arts-Based and Artistic Dissertations in Context: Explorations, Interventions and Glocal Interpretations

Mira Kallio-Tavin and Kevin Tavin

Chapter 20: Barrier or Catalyst: Cross-Cultural and Language Issues for Doctoral Researchers in Japan

Toshio Naoe

Chapter 21: A Research Profile of Visual Arts Theses in Education in Turkey

Suzan Duygu Bedir Eristi

Chapter 22: Qualities of Artmaking in Arts-based Educational Research Dissertations

Alison Shields and Rita L. Irwin

Notes on Contributors

Index

Provoking the Field: International Perspectives

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      Publisher: Intellect Books
      Publication Date: 13/05/2019
      ISBN13: 9781783209910, 978-1783209910
      ISBN10: 1783209917

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      Provoking the Field invites debate on, and provides an essential resource for, transnational arts-based scholars engaged in critical analyses of international visual arts education and its enquiry in doctoral research. Divided into three parts – doctoral processes, doctoral practices and doctoral programmes – the volume interrogates education in both formal and informal learning environments, ranging from schools to post-secondary institutions to community and adult education.

      This book brings together a global range of authors to examine visual arts PhDs using diverse theoretical perspectives; innovative arts and hybrid methodologies; institutional relationships and scholarly practices; and voices from the field in the form of site-specific cases. A compendium of leading voices in arts education, Provoking the Field provides a diverse range of perspectives on arts enquiry, and a comprehensive study of the state of visual arts PhDs in education.



      Trade Review

      '[Provoking the Field] is comprised of a series of case studies that illustrate the wide variety and richness of arts-based research undertaken as part of international doctoral programmes in education. One strength of this publication is the impressive range of nationalities that are included in the book; examples of doctoral programmes are represented from all parts of the globe. It is clear that attempts have been made to avoid an ethnocentric perspective on the subject.

      This book will be important to those doctorate students who intend using visual arts methods to explore educational research questions. […] New Ph.D. supervisors would also find Provoking the Field: International Perspectives on Visual Arts PhDs in Education a valuable asset when developing their own supervisory practice.'

      -- Samantha Broadhead, Art, Design & Communication in Higher Education

      Table of Contents

      Introduction

      Part 1: Provoking Doctoral Processes

      Chapter 1: The Knowledge Creation Spectrum

      Michael Biggs

      Chapter 2" Interpolation and Relationality: Extending the Field through Creative Arts and Indigenous Research Approaches

      Estelle Barrett

      Chapter 3: Transformative Interventions: Creative Practices in an Education Doctorate Programme

      Jeff Adams and Emma Arya-Manesh

      Chapter 4: Art-Based Action Research: Participatory Art Education Research for the North

      Timo Jokela, Maria Huhmarniemi and Mirja Hiltunen

      Chapter 5: Researching the Unknown through Arts-Based Research to Promote Pedagogical Imagination

      Fernando Hernández-Hernández

      Chapter 6: Taking Shape: Visual Appearance and Theory

      Brooke Hofsess, Karina Riddett and Richard Siegesmund

      Part 2: Provoking Doctoral Practices

      Chapter 7: When is a Red Shoe not a Red Shoe? Conceptual Framing and the Consequences for the 'Object' in Virtual Research

      Barbara Bolt

      Chapter 8: How Can Artistic Research (Still) Be Disruptive?

      Natalia Calderón

      Chapter 9: Artmaking as Entanglement: Conceptualising Agency through a Diffractive Methodology

      Ramya Ravisankar

      Chapter 10: A/R/Tographic Rhythm: Opening Conversations of Resistance and Accommodation as Scholarly Provocation

      Anita Sinner, Verónica Sahagún Sánchez, Jennifer Wicks and Darlene St. Georges

      Chapter 11: To Reach the Unreached: Rhythms of Issues, Reflections, Writings and Art Practices

      Jo Chiung Hua Chen

      Chapter 12: Artistic Event as Pedagogy

      Belidson Dias and Tatiana Fernández

      Chapter 13: Parsing Creative Influence through Comparative Visual Research Methods

      Justin B. Makemson

      Chapter 14: Artworks in Residence: Semiosis, Transmediation and ZPD

      Julie Wren, Susan Wright and Marnee Watkins

      Chapter 15: Connections, Disruptions and Reconfigurations: The Implications of Aesthetic Experience for Doctoral Research in the Visual Arts

      Boyd White and April Mandrona

      Part 3: Provoking Doctoral Programmes

      Chapter 16: Navigating Ethics Protocols for Artistic Research: Strategies for Graduate Student Researchers

      Lorrie Blair

      Chapter 17: Examining the Case for Artful Participatory Inquiry in the Visual Art Education Doctorate

      Kathryn Grushka and Allyson Holbrook

      Chapter 8: Some Iberian Perspectives about Arts-Based and Artistic Research in Arts Education

      Teresa Torres de Eça and ngela Saldanha

      Chapter 19: Finnish Arts-Based and Artistic Dissertations in Context: Explorations, Interventions and Glocal Interpretations

      Mira Kallio-Tavin and Kevin Tavin

      Chapter 20: Barrier or Catalyst: Cross-Cultural and Language Issues for Doctoral Researchers in Japan

      Toshio Naoe

      Chapter 21: A Research Profile of Visual Arts Theses in Education in Turkey

      Suzan Duygu Bedir Eristi

      Chapter 22: Qualities of Artmaking in Arts-based Educational Research Dissertations

      Alison Shields and Rita L. Irwin

      Notes on Contributors

      Index

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