Arts-Based Educational Research Trajectories (eBook)

This book offers reflections from Arts-Based Educational Research (ABER) scholars who, since 2005, were awarded the American Educational Research Association ABER Special Interest Group's Outstanding Dissertation Award. The book includes essays from ten awardees who, across diverse artistic disciplines, share how their ABER careers evolve and succeed-inspiring insights into the possibilities of ABER. It also examines the essential role of mentorship in the academy that supports and expands ABER scholarship. Drawing from dissertation exemplars in the field, this book allows readers to look at how ABER scholars learn with the world while creatively researching and teaching in innovative ways


Barbara Bickel, Ph.D., is Associate Professor of Art Education, Emerita at Southern Illinois University and Co-founder of Studio M*: A Research Creation Lab Intersecting Arts, Culture and Healing currently based in Canada. She is an artist-researcher-teacher, and is co-founder and former Editor-In-Chief of the Springer book series Studies in Arts-Based Educational Research, as well as co-founder and Senior Editor of Artizein: Arts and Teaching Journal. She is author of Art, Ritual and Trance Inquiry: Arational Learning in an Irrational World, co-author with R. Michael Fisher of Art-Care Practices for Restoring the Communal: Education, Co-Inquiry and Healing and co-editor with Susan Walsh and Carl Leggo of the book Arts-Based and Contemplative Practices in Research and Teaching: Honoring Presence.

Dr. Rita L. Irwin is Artist, Researcher and Teacher deeply committed to the arts and education. She is Distinguished University Scholar and Professor of Art Education in the Department of Curriculum and Pedagogy at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Rita served as Associate Dean of Teacher Education at UBC from 2005-2015 and Head of the Department of Curriculum Studies from 1999-2005. Rita has been Educational Leader for a number of provincial, national and international organizations including being President of the Canadian Society for the Study of Education, Canadian Association of Curriculum Studies, Canadian Society for Education through Art and the International Society for Education through Art.

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This book offers reflections from Arts-Based Educational Research (ABER) scholars who, since 2005, were awarded the American Educational Research Association ABER Special Interest Group's Outstanding Dissertation Award. The book includes essays from ten awardees who, across diverse artistic disciplines, share how their ABER careers evolve and succeed-inspiring insights into the possibilities of ABER. It also examines the essential role of mentorship in the academy that supports and expands ABER scholarship. Drawing from dissertation exemplars in the field, this book allows readers to look at how ABER scholars learn with the world while creatively researching and teaching in innovative ways