Overview
- Provides concrete, practical methods for working with children
- Highlights and centers the voices and experiences of children
- Offers innovative and forward-thinking insights that situate the work within the larger context of community
Part of the book series: Studies in Childhood and Youth (SCY)
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This book offers a practical, methodological guide to conducting arts-based research with children by drawing on five years of the authors’ experience carrying out arts-based research with children in Australia and the UK. Based on the Australian Research Council-funded Interfaith Childhoods project, the authors describe methods of engaging communities and making data with children that foreground children’s experiences and worldviews through making, being with, and viewing art. Framing these methods of doing, seeing, being, and believing through art as modes of understanding children’s strategies for negotiating personal identities and values, this book explores the value of arts-based research as a means of obtaining complex information about children’s life worlds that can be difficult to express verbally.
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Reviews
“Flying soccer balls that are ice-cream factories inside, cars with wings, mobile recycling plants, streets that are rivers. These are the inventions children have offered up to Hickey-Moody. This is because she deftly uses arts-based methodologies to provide resources for engaging with children and communities to examine social issues such as belonging, community cohesion, faith and attachment. This book will appeal to those who wish to work with arts practices to explore similar themes in complex social circumstances, either as 'research' or as 'community engagement.' Hickey-Moody is an international leader in arts-based methodologies, if you're interested in how to do them well—you should read this book.”
—Mary Lou Rasmussen, Professor in the College of Arts & Sciences, Australian National University
—Mary Lou Rasmussen, Professor in the College of Arts & Sciences, Australian National University
Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Anna Hickey-Moody is RMIT Vice-Chancellor’s Senior Research Fellow based in the Digital Ethnography Research Centre and School of Media and Communication at RMIT University, Australia, and an Australian Research Council Future Fellow.
Christine Horn is Research Associate at the Digital Ethnography Research Centre in the School of Media and Communication at RMIT University, Australia.
Marissa Willcox is Research Associate at the Digital Ethnography Research Centre in the School of Media and Communication at RMIT University, Australia.
Eloise Florence is Research Associate at RMIT University, Australia.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Arts-Based Methods for Research with Children
Authors: Anna Hickey-Moody, Christine Horn, Marissa Willcox, Eloise Florence
Series Title: Studies in Childhood and Youth
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-68060-2
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-68059-6Published: 23 February 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-68060-2Published: 22 February 2021
Series ISSN: 2731-6467
Series E-ISSN: 2731-6475
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 149
Number of Illustrations: 28 b/w illustrations, 10 illustrations in colour
Topics: Sociology of Family, Youth and Aging, Education, general, Creativity and Arts Education, Research Skills, Research Methods in Education