Arts-Based Methods for Research with Children

This book offers a practical, methodological guide to conducting arts-based research with children by drawing on five years of the authors' experience carrying out arts-based research with children in Australia and the UK. Based on the Australian Research Council-funded Interfaith Childhoods project, the authors describe methods of engaging communities and making data with children that foreground children's experiences and worldviews through making, being with, and viewing art. Framing these methods of doing, seeing, being, and believing through art as modes of understanding children's strategies for negotiating personal identities and values, this book explores the value of arts-based research as a means of obtaining complex information about children's life worlds that can be difficult to express verbally.

Provides concrete, practical methods for working with children Highlights and centers the voices and experiences of children Offers innovative and forward-thinking insights that situate the work within the larger context of community

Autorentext
Anna Hickey-Moody is RMIT Vice-Chancellor's Senior Research Fellow based in the Digital Ethnography Research Centre and School of Media and Communication at RMIT University, Australia, and an Australian Research Council Future Fellow. Christine Horn is Research Associate at the Digital Ethnography Research Centre in the School of Media and Communication at RMIT University, Australia. Marissa Willcox is Research Associate at the Digital Ethnography Research Centre in the School of Media and Communication at RMIT University, Australia. Eloise Florence is Research Associate at RMIT University, Australia.

Inhalt

1. Introduction.- 2. Doing - Arts workshops as research with children.- 3. Seeing - Visually analysing children's art.- 4. Being - Children's ways of being through art.- 5. Believing - Belief in the making: The impacts of arts-based approaches.- 6. Conclusion - Doing, seeing, being, and believing in arts-based research with children.