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Book SynopsisThree Approaches to Qualitative Research through the ARtS: Narratives of Teaching for Social Justice and Community incorporates aesthetic education into social justice discourses and advances qualitative research strategies through the medium of three theoretical frameworks: phenomenology, critical ethnographic research, and poststructuralist theories.
Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Illustrations Introduction Imagination and the Aesthetic Experience What Is the Arts Initiative? Methodological Groundings of This Book Organization of This Book Chapter 1: Three Theoretical Approaches to the Arts: Where Our Conversation Begins Where to Start Phenomenological Inquiry Critical Ethnographic Research Poststructuralist Theories Methodological Inquiry Questions Chapter 2: Heart Is Active Citizenship Metaphors in Phenomenology Heart and Active Citizenship The Heart of the Arts: Images of Partnership Chapter 3: Active Citizenship Is a Shout-Out Active Citizenship, Solidarity, and Social Change Vignettes of the Field: From Critical Ethnographic Research Perspectives Further Considerations Chapter 4: The Arts Community without Community The “How” of the Cultural Experience in the Arts Thinking with Theories and Theories with Thinking The Concept of Community without Community Community of Interrelationality Multiplicities of Community Community without Community and Social Transformation Chapter 5: The Arts, Social Justice, & Research Methodology Issue 1: Open-Ended Inquiry in the Arts Issue 2: Arts and Equity Issues Issue 3: Community and Partnership Issue 4: Towards Methodological Imagination Active Citizenship and Metaphors Appendix References Index
