Qualitative Research: An Introduction to Methods and Designs

Planning and Conducting Arts-Based Research Studies

The term arts-based research signifies not so much a category of research as an approach in which a high degree of aesthetic design elements are employed effectively in order to fulfill the heuristic and interrogatory research purposes discussed earlier. The processes engaged in during the planning and conducting of these studies embody some common features. This is especially true for arts-based research in which the final work resembles a work of art, one that could be conventionally labeled as nonfiction or fiction. According to Barone (1992), several phases may be identified in the processes of planning and conducting these studies. They parallel the five phases identified in a process of ...