Practice as research in the arts
Subtitle: principles, protocols, pedagogies, resistances
By: written and edited by Robin Nelson, Director of Research, Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, University of London UK
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 229
ISBN-13: 9781137282897; 9781137282903
Subjects: Recherche; Konst; Performing arts; Research; Methodology; Forskning; Arts; Art de performance; Art and Design
Description: This book takes a fresh "how to" approach to Practice as Research. At the "performance turn" it argues that old prejudices should be abandoned and that a PaR methodology and its modes of "doing-knowing" should be fully accepted in the academy. It refines Robin Nelson's earlier models for PaR but sustains the dynamic and dialogic interplay between different modes of knowledge-production in a multi-mode research inquiry. It advances strategies for articulating and evidencing the research inquiry and offers practical guidance to practitioner-researchers on how to conduct a PaR inquiry. With reference to examples drawn from a decade of supervisory, examining and audit experience, Nelson addresses - and offers answers to - the many questions students, professional practitioner-researchers, regulators and examiners have posed in this domain. To broaden the perspective and take account of differing levels of acceptance and development of programmes in PaR around the word, in Part II of the book six international contributors respond to Part I and afford cross-sights from the standpoint of their territory.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-225) and index.

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Table of contents: title: Robin Nelson on practice as research. Introduction: the what, where, when and why of "practice as research"; title: From practitioner to practitioner-researcher; title: Conceptual frameworks for PaR and related pedagogy: from "hard facts" to "liquid knowing"; title: Supervision, documentation and other aspects of praxis; title: PaR PhDs: a guideline/clew to a successful outcome for all (candidates, examiners, administrators, regulators); title: Regional perspectives. Aotearoa/New Zealand and practice as research / Suzanne Little; title: Artists in Australian Academies: Performance in the labyrinth of practice-led research / Julie Robson; title: PaR in Continental Europe: a site of many contests / Dieter Lesage; title: Artistic research in a Nordic context / Annette Arlander; title: Practice as Research in South Africa / Veronica Baxter; title: Why Performance as Research? a US perspective / Shannon Rose Riley.