Course Description
Examination of techniques of arts-based scholarship to increase the value, validity, and impact of qualitative research for understanding culturally and linguistically diverse learning communities. Students will practice poetic, theatrical, and artistic data collection, analysis, and representation. Students will develop focused expertise, fostering a rigorous critical community for an arts-based scholarship.
Athena Title
Arts-Based Inquiry
Equivalent Courses
Not open to students with credit in LLED 8590, LLED 8590E, QUAL 8590E
Prerequisite
Permission of department
Semester Course Offered
Offered every year.
Grading System
A - F (Traditional)
Course Objectives
1. Explore the history and theory of arts-based and poetic approaches to educational research in culturally and linguistically diverse communities 2. Identify connections between arts-based research and other methods used in humanities-oriented empiricism (e.g., autoethnography, case study historical research) 3. Practice the techniques and craft involved in arts-based approaches to inquiry 4. Complete a pilot arts-based inquiry project among culturally and linguistically diverse learning communities and/or project of their own choosing 5. Create a critical community for arts-based research through readings, discussions, and practice 6. Develop critically-artistic sensibilities to apply to educational research
Topical Outline
1. Challenges to the Definition and Acceptance of Arts-Based Inquiry as Research 2. Poetry and Educational Inquiry 3. Autoethnography as Poetic Inquiry 4. Researching the Visual 5. Humanities Standards and (Non)Fictional Inquiry 6. Performance Inquiry, Ethnodrama, and Ethnofiction 7. Multigenres in Fields of Play 8. Alternative Dissertations, In Process 9. An Alternative Dissertation Complete – UGA 10. Sharing/Critiquing Works in Progress