This book explores the connections made in and through arts-based educational research through four themes: socially engaged connections, cultural connections, personal and pedagogical connections, and making connections during the COVID-19 pandemic. It emerges from the 3rd bi-annual 2020 Artful Inquiry Research Group symposium on the theme of connections. The symposium brought together artists, community members, teachers, students, and researchers through a virtual platform to examine the way(s) in which the arts can help connect people, ideas, and spaces/places in a pandemic reality.
Art plays a predominant role in each chapter as authors weave their research and art-based understandings together. This book is a valuable teaching resource for undergraduate and postgraduate courses in teaching, anthropology, digital ethnography, autoethnography, cultural studies, and communications. It is of interest to higher education students, academic researchers, and teachers exploring arts-based methodologies in the fields of creative practice and creativity studies, communications, critical studies, sociology, sciences, teacher education, and the arts.
Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: Re-storying Immigrant Seniors During COVID Through a Lens of Narrative Inquiry.- Chapter 3: Shifting Work and Home Spatialities: Connecting
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through Arts-Based Research during the COVID-19 Pandemic.- Chapter 4: Connected Across Distance: Creating and Sustaining Collegial Collaboration Through Arts-Based Educational Research .- Chapter 5: On recruiting Aesthetic Experience: A Trio-Ethnography of the Affordances and Limitations of Teaching (with) the Arts and Literature in al³A