Collaborative Arts-Based Research For Social Justice (Routledge Advances In The Medical Humanities)

This book provides a user-friendly guide to conducting collaborative arts-based research. Providing practical, step-by-step assistance on how to actually conduct research, the text offers chapters on: Project design Data collection using a range of methods, including poetry, story-telling, short-film, photography, visual art and music Data analysis Dissemination. Foster also introduces relevant methodological debates, giving a context for understanding when arts-based research can be a fruitful approach to take and outlining a convincing rationale for using the arts as a way of understanding and representing the social world. Illustrative examples from around the world are used throughout and the book ends with an extended case study, exploring the process as a whole. With its emphasis on the value of participative research and social justice, arts-based research is increasingly popular in health and social research. This is the ideal text for those looking to introduce arts-based methods into their own research.

• | Author: Victoria Foster
• | Publisher: Routledge
• | Publication Date: Dec 04, 2015
• | Number of Pages: 170 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 0415656923
• | ISBN-13: 9780415656924