Imagination and Arts-Based Practices for Integration in Research

Imagination and Arts-Based Practices for Integration in Research examines bold and innovative ways for using arts-based and narrative research techniques to propose a model for using the researcher's imagination to truly 'mix methods' - a model for integrating qualitative and quantitative research designs and data.

List of contents

1. Introduction 2. Imagination: Changing Worldview and Social Discourse 3. Dialectical Aesthetic Intersubjectivity: A Philosophical Perspective 4. Imagination in Research: Reconceptualizing Method, Data, and Evidence 5. Imaginative Processes and Arts-based practices in Research 6. Imagination and Integration in Mixed and Multi-Method Research 7. Integration Using Imagination Processes and Arts-Based Practices 8. Conclusion

About the author

Nancy Gerber is an art psychotherapist, educator, and scholar. Through her years of clinical practice, teaching, and research, she has developed an interest in creating ways to capture and study the complexities and dimensions of the human condition through research methods that include and synthesize imaginative processes and arts-based practices.

Summary

Imagination and Arts-Based Practices for Integration in Research examines bold and innovative ways for using arts-based and narrative research techniques to propose a model for using the researcher's imagination to truly 'mix methods' - a model for integrating qualitative and quantitative research designs and data.

Product details

• Authors: Nancy Gerber, Gerber Nancy
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 19.12.2024
• EAN: 9781032196428
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3219642-8
• No. of pages: 90
• Series: Developing Traditions in Qualitative Inquiry
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Education system; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > Communication science; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Research, PSYCHOLOGY / Research & Methodology, Creative therapy (eg art, music, drama), Social research & statistics, Social research and statistics, Research methods: general, Creative therapy / Expressive therapies