Art-Based Research (eBook)

Shaun McNiff (Autor)

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1998
224 Seiten
Jessica Kingsley Publishers (Verlag)
978-1-84642-895-1 (ISBN)

Infos

In this innovative book, Shaun McNiff breaks new ground in defining and inspiring art-based research. He illustrates how practitioner-researchers can become involved in art-based inquiries during their educational studies and throughout their careers, and shows how new types of research can be created that resonate with the artistic process.

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Art therapy and all of the other creative arts therapies have promoted themselves as ways of expressing what cannot be conveyed in conventional language. Why is it that creative arts therapists fail to apply this line of thinking to research? In this exciting and innovative book, Shaun McNiff, one of the field's pioneering educators and authors, breaks new ground in defining and inspiring art-based research. He illustrates how practitioner-researchers can become involved in art-based inquiries during their educational studies and throughout their careers, and shows how new types of research can be created that resonate with the artistic process.Clearly and cogently expressed, the theoretical arguments are illustrated by numerous case examples, and the final part of the book provides a wealth of ideas and thought provoking questions for research.This challenging book will prove invaluable to creative art therapy educators, students, and clinicians who wish to approach artistic inquiry as a way of conducting research. It will also find a receptive audience within the larger research community where there is a rising commitment to expanding the theory and practice of research. Integrating artistic and scientific procedures in many novel ways, this book offers fresh and productive visions of what research can be.

Autor

Shaun McNiff PhD, ATR is the Provost and Dean of Endicott College in Beverly, Massachusetts. An internationally-renowned figure in the creative arts therapies, he has written many critically-acclaimed books including Art as Medicine: Creating a Therapy of the Imagination,Educating the Creative Arts Therapist and Depth Psychology of Art. Dr McNiff has been honoured on many occasions for his pioneering contributions to the creative arts therapy field, and he is the 1997 recipient of the America Art Therapy Association's Honorary Life Member Award.

Inhalt

I Theoretical Foundations. The Emergence of a New Vision of Research. From Justification to Creative Inquiry. Connections to Imaginative Science. Art's Integration of Empirical and Introspective Inquiries. Practitioner Research. II Review of Art Therapy Research. Breadth of Inquiry. A Showing of Imagery and Experiences. Research as a Focus in Art Therapy. Artistic Knowing in Art Therapy Literature. An Overview of Research in an Art Therapy Graduate Program. III Research Ideas. The Method of Discovery. Practice of Research. Structure. Artistic Amplification of Case Studies. Ideas: The effects of aesthetic quality; method studies; histories; outcome assessments. Postscript. References.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.6.1998
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 140 x 140 mm
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Psychiatrie / Psychotherapie
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Physiotherapie / Ergotherapie ► Ergotherapie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Empirische Sozialforschung
• Schlagworte: case examples • Clinicians • creative arts therapies • students • theory and practice of research
• ISBN-10: 1-84642-895-5 / 1846428955
• ISBN-13: 978-1-84642-895-1 / 9781846428951