Making Connections in and Through Arts-Based Educational Research

Methodologically, the chapters in the book meet the aim of the American Educational Research Association ABER Special Interest Group in that they push methodological boundaries through use of narrative inquiry, performance-based arts, and arts-based educational inquiry to include trio-ethnography, ethnodrama, digital dialogue and visuals, socially engaged art, textile work, choreo-writing, a/r/tography, self-study, poetics and poetic inquiry, photo-elicitation, and others. The diverse representation of methodologies further substantiates the irrefutable importance and influence of creativity and art in research that binds, heals, and connects; and is a roadmap of sorts for established scholars and those new to and interested in the field.