An Introductory Guide to Qualitative Research in Art Museums

Ann Rowson Love, PhD, is the Director of the MA/PhD program, Museum Education and Visitor-Centered Curation, in the Department of Art Education at Florida State University in Tallahassee, Florida, USA. Her research interests include interpretive planning and strategies, collaborative curation, feminist systems thinking, and visitor studies in art museums. She co-edited three previous books including Dimensions of Curation: Considering Competing Values for Intentional Exhibition Practices and Visitor-Centered Exhibitions and Edu-Curation in Art Museums with Pat Villeneuve and Systems Thinking in Museums with Yuha Jung. Deborah Randolph, PhD, is a Principal Researcher for International Scholars Group and is based in Raleigh, North Carolina, and New Orleans, LA, USA. She is the former Curator of Education at the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, NC, and the former Associate Curator of Education at The Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans, LA. She has co-written chapters in five edited volumes. Her research interests include arts and social justice, art museums, qualitative research, artistic practice, museum environmental resistance, arts integration, and historical weaving.

Part I DEVELOPING A QUALITATIVE RESEARCH PROJECT: Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 Getting Started; Chapter 3 Choosing Theory and Frameworks; Chapter 4 Selecting Methodologies and Methods; Part II METHODOLOGIES: Chapter 5 Ethnography and Indigenous Methodologies; Chapter 6 Case Study; Chapter 7 Action Research; Chapter 8 Narrative Inquiry; Chapter 9 Arts-Based Research; Chapter 10 Historical Methods; Chapter 11 Phenomenology; Chapter 12 Grounded Theory; Chapter 13 Mixed Methods; Part III ANALYSIS AND REPORTING: Chapter 14 Data Analysis; Chapter 15 Reporting and Interpretation; Chapter 16 Conclusion.