Exploration 2- Arts-Based Research
"A social justice approach to arts-based research involves continual critical reflexivity in response to injustice" (Keifer-Boyd, 2011). Dr. Keifer-Boyd breaks down arts-based research centered around issues of social justice into five categories, insight, inquiry, imagination, embodiment, and relationally (2011). After reading, I felt as though my thinking around what arts-based research is had stretched to accept that it can look and exist in varying formats. For instance, when relating this learning to Lisa Kay's article, "Collages and Poetry and a Play: An Arts-Based Research Journey", ways in which arts-based research can exist were highlighted in very real, authentic mediums. Kay investigates how artmaking can be used by researchers as a way to examine patterns and make meaning (2014). Through this journey, Kay uses beaded bracelets, poetry, and play writing as varying ways to collect data on how students and teachers characterize art education. As an ...