Using Art as Research in Learning and Teaching

Ross W. Prior is best known for his book Teaching Actors: Knowledge Transfer in Actor Training (Intellect and University of Chicago Press) and his work in applied arts and health as Founding Principal Editor of the Journal of Applied Arts & Health, established in 2009. In 2015, he was appointed inaugural Professor of Learning and Teaching in the Arts in Higher Education at the University of Wolverhampton, United Kingdom. Professor Shaun McNiff has a significant international following. He is author of Imagination in Action; Art as Research; Trust the Process; Art as Medicine; Art Heals; Depth Psychology of Art; and numerous other books. His works have been translated into many languages and he has lectured and taught throughout the world. In 1998 he wrote Art-Based Research, documenting his work with artistic knowing beginning in the early 1970s, and the book helped spur fast growth of the discipline. The recipient of numerous prestigious honours and awards, he was appointed as the first University Professor at Lesley University, USA, in 2002.

Foreword

Shaun McNiff



Preface 

Ross W. Prior



Chapter 1: Introduction: Artist–Educator–Researcher 



Ross W. Prior



Part 1: Aesthetic Education and Ways of Knowing in Art 



Chapter 2: Art as a Procedure of Truth 



Malcolm Ross



Chapter 3: ‘Not Sure’: The Didactics of Elusive Knowledge 



Peter Sinapius



Chapter 4: Art as the Topic, Process and Outcome of Research within Higher Education



Ross W. Prior



Chapter 5: A Different Way of Knowing: Assessment and Feedback in Art-Based Research



Mitchell Kossak



Part 2: Developing Our Practice in Postgraduate Education 



Chapter 6: Doing Art-Based Research: An Advising Scenario 



Shaun McNiff



Chapter 7: Research–Practice–Pedagogy: Establishing New Topologies of Doctoral Research in the Arts



Jacqueline Taylor



Chapter 8: The ‘Epistemic Object’ in the Creative Process of Doctoral Inquiry 



Carole Gray, Julian Malins and Maxine Bristow



Using Art as Research in Learning and Teaching



Chapter 9: Finding My Visual Research Voice: Art as the Tool for Research 



Megan Lawton



Part 3: Involving Students and Others in Art as Research



Chapter 10: Making and Material Affect: From Learning and Teaching to Sharing and Listening



Mah Rana and Fiona Hackney



Chapter 11: Using Art to Cultivate ‘Medical Humanities Care’ in Chinese Medical Education



Daniel Vuillermin



Chapter 12: Entanglement in Shakespeare’s Text: Using Interpretive Mnemonics with Acting Students with Dyslexia



Petronilla Whitfield



Chapter 13: Dancing as a Wolf: Art-Based Understanding of Autistic Spectrum Condition



Kevin Burrows



Part 4: Current and Future Issues in Arts Learning and Teaching 



Chapter 14: Making Art and Teaching Art: Harnessing the Tension 



Libby Byrne and Patricia Fenner



Chapter 15: Future Approaches in Using Artistic Research from Human Experience

Petar Jandric ́ and Sarah Hayes



Notes on Contributors