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A/r/tography as Living Inquiry Through Art and Text (2005)

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There is a substantial body of literature on arts-based forms of research demonstrating scholars' endeavors to theorize the production of the arts as a mode of scholarly inquiry and as a method of representation. However, if arts-based research is to be taken seriously as an emerging field of educational research, then perhaps it needs to be understood as a methodology in its own right. This entails moving beyond the use of existing criteria that exists for qualitative research and toward an understanding of interdisciplinarity not as a patchwork of different disciplines and methodologies but as a loss, a shift, or a rupture where in absence, new courses of action un/fold. This article proposes an understanding of arts-based research as enacted, living inquiry through six renderings of a/r/tography: contiguity, living inquiry, openings, metaphor/metonymy, reverberations, and excess.

Keywords: arts based research ; contiguity ; creative practice ; embodiment ; excess ; interdisciplinary ; living inquiry ; metaphor ; methodology ; metonymy ; openings ; pedagogy ; relationality ; renderings ; reverberations

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