Perspectives on Arts Education Research in Canada, Volume 1

Bernard W. Andrews, Ed.D. (1987), is Professor of Education, University of Ottawa. He has published widely in arts and education journals, including his most recent book, Working Together: A Case Study of a National Arts Education Partnership (Peter Lang, 2016).

• ForewordJohn J. Guiney YallopPrefaceList of FiguresNotes on Contributors1 From Paris to Belfast: A Canadian Life Writing Journey HomeNané Jordan2 Imagination: The Generation of PossibilityPauline Sameshima, Sean Wiebe and Michael T. Hayes3 Creating Complex and Diverse Communities of Meaning Makers with Help from RemingtonKathryn Ricketts4 Historiographic Poiesis and Adoption Ephemera: Journeys in Arts-Based ResearchKate Greenway5 Arts-Based Methods, Transformation, and Possibilities in Interdisciplinary Arts-Based ResearchGenevieve Cloutier6 KIZUNA: A Creative JourneyYoriko Gillard7 A Story Cloth of Curriculum Making: Narratively S-t-i-t-c-h-i-n-g Understandings through Arts-Informed WorkSajani (Jinny) Menon8 Being and Becoming an Artist: Exploring the Life Histories of Five Indigenous Artists from the Northwest TerritoriesJulia Brook and Susan Catlin9 Tensions in the Mentor-Mentee Relationship in Teacher Education: An Artistic InquiryCaterina Migliore10 Responsive Inquiry: Employing a Musical Metaphor to Conceptualize an Arts-Based Research Strategy for the Electronic FieldBernard W. Andrews

"This compendium offers critical perspectives utilizing various arts-based research methodologies reflective of the richness and diversity of the multicultural landscape of Canada. A must-read for all arts educators and researchers." – Rodger Beatty, Brock University"What a feast! This book presents a fascinating panoply of post-qualitative research in Canada. With a diverse range of methods, including a/r/tography, auto-ethnography, life history, embodied poetic narrative, historiographic poiesis, proestry, stitching a story cloth and more, artist/scholars leverage the power of the arts to explore, come to know, and represent. Addressing topics from disaster relief to Indigenous arts education to the tortures of teaching practice the authors evocatively demonstrate the enormous potential of researching with and through the arts to enliven understanding." – Benjamin Bolden, UNESCO Chair in Arts and Learning, Queen’s University“This compilation offers new directions in arts-based and arts-informed research with profound implications for pedagogy and practice. You will find in the pages of this book, engaging and thought-provoking ideas from arts education scholars in Canada. I felt inspired by each contribution and am convinced that this book provides timely and valuable insights for future research in arts education.” – Susan O’Neill, Dean, Faculty of Education, Simon Fraser University