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Inhaltsverzeichnis
Introduction Part 1. The Politico-Economic Position 1. The Vocationalization of the University 2. Quality Management and Performance Assessment 3. Creating a Site for Production and Reproduction Part 2. The Logico-Deductive Position 4. The Academization of the Arts 5. Knowledge Building and Established Methods 6. Advancing Thought Through Scholarship Part 3. The Empirico-Paradigmatic Position 7. The Hybridization of Knowledge 8. Alternative Ontologies and Bridging Methodologies 9. Transforming Epistemologies with Arts Practices Part 4. The Socio-Cultural Position 10. The Legitimization of Values 11. Community Values and Authentic Paradigms 12. Witnessing the Emergence of the Artist-Researcher
Über den Autor / die Autorin
Michael Biggs is Professor of Aesthetics at the School of Creative Arts at the University of Hertfordshire, UK. He is also Visiting Professor in Arts-based Research in Architecture at the University of Lund, Sweden and Visiting Research Professor at Presbyterian University Mackenzie, São Paulo, Brazil.
Daniela Büchler is Senior Research Fellow at the University of Hertfordshire, UK.
Zusammenfassung
In this book the authors take four different positions on research in the arts: a politico-economic position, a logico-deductive position, an empirico-paradigmatic position, and a socio-cultural position. Each emerges according to a community’s claims about, and production of, research in the arts. The authors address questions of meaningfulness and significance, as well as relationships between beliefs and coherent research actions in order to reveal the relevant issues and debates as seen from within each position.From within a politico-economic position, questions emerge about the role of national norms, institutional hegemony, and economic incentives towards research. Alternatively, from within a logico-deductive position research in the arts is considered as contributing to well-established or "dominant" academic paradigms. In an empirico-paradigmatic position, notions of "alternative" and "hybrid" paradigms, as opposed to "dominant" paradigms, become more relevant and it is from within this position that the authors consider negotiated attempts at producing research in the arts. Lastly the authors take a socio-cultural position to explain how the research activity emerges authentically as a function of the community values and the individuals that inhabit that community.
