Handbook of the Arts in Qualitative Research
Subtitle: Perspectives, Methodologies, Examples, and Issues
Contributors: J . Gary Knowles (Editor); Ardra L. Cole (Editor)
Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc; Sage Publications
Published: November 14, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 720
ISBN-13: 9781412905312
Subjects: Social research & statistics; Social Sciences Research; Social Science; Sociology; Research; Social Science / Research; Humanities; Social sciences
Description: "The bringing together of the arts and qualitative inquiry is changing the face of social science research. The increasing shift toward arts-based research has raised complex questions, such as how to evaluate its quality and even whether distinctions exist between what is art and what is research. In the Handbook of the Arts in Qualitative Research, editors J. Gary Knowles and Ardra L. Cole bring together the top scholars in qualitative methods to provide a comprehensive overview of where arts-based research has come, and where it is going. Through various categories of art and art-based research - namely epistemological, historical, methodological, thematic - this defining work will address all the significant issues of conceiving and conducting arts-based or arts-informed research in the social sciences and humanities, as well as the challenges of composing final representations of the research." http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0808/2007021783-d.html.