Using Art as Research in Learning and Teaching

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Using Art as Research in Learning and Teaching (Book)

Multidisciplinary Approaches Across the Arts

Edited by Ross W. Prior Foreword by Shaun McNiff

Using Art as Research in Learning and Teaching explores various multidisciplinary visual and performing art forms, including creative writing, as ways to provide a rich contribution and understanding to research, learning and teaching. Key figures in the field share their art-based research, arts practice and philosophy, bringing the arts to life within their taught and learned contexts across a variety of art forms and levels of post-compulsory education. Featuring a foreword by internationally-renowned proponent of art-based research Professor Shaun McNiff, this book will be informative and useful to arts researchers and educators, addressing key challenges and possibilities in a rapidly changing higher education environment.

Category: Health and Therapy, Performing Arts, Visual Arts

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Using Art as Research in Learning and Teaching explores various multidisciplinary visual and performing art forms, including creative writing, as ways to provide a rich contribution and understanding to research, learning and teaching. Key figures in the field share their art-based research, arts practice and philosophy, bringing the arts to life within their taught and learnt contexts across a variety of art forms and levels of post-compulsory education. In what is an invaluable collection, this book is directly beneficial to arts researchers and educators, addressing the key challenges and possibilities in a rapidly changing higher education environment.

Ross W. Prior is best known for his book Teaching Actors: Knowledge Transfer in Actor Training (Intellect and University of Chicago Press) and his work in applied arts and health as Founding Principal Editor of the Journal of Applied Arts & Health, established in 2009. In 2015, he was appointed inaugural Professor of Learning and Teaching in the Arts in Higher Education at the University of Wolverhampton, United Kingdom.

Professor Shaun McNiff has a significant international following. He is author of Imagination in Action; Art as Research; Trust the Process; Art as Medicine; Art Heals; Depth Psychology of Art; and numerous other books. His works have been translated into many languages and he has lectured and taught throughout the world. In 1998 he wrote Art-Based Research, documenting his work with artistic knowing beginning in the early 1970s, and the book helped spur fast growth of the discipline. The recipient of numerous prestigious honours and awards, he was appointed as the first University Professor at Lesley University, USA, in 2002.

Foreword
Shaun McNiff

Preface
Ross W. Prior

Chapter 1: Introduction: Artist–Educator–Researcher

Ross W. Prior

Part 1: Aesthetic Education and Ways of Knowing in Art

Chapter 2: Art as a Procedure of Truth

Malcolm Ross

Chapter 3: ‘Not Sure’: The Didactics of Elusive Knowledge

Peter Sinapius

Chapter 4: Art as the Topic, Process and Outcome of Research within Higher Education

Ross W. Prior

Chapter 5: A Different Way of Knowing: Assessment and Feedback in Art-Based Research