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Iowa State University**
 * Res Ev 615: Arts-based research methods**
 * (3 credits)**
 * Summer 2009

Multi-media, narrative, photography, reader’s theatre, blogging, collage, dance…

Art as Data, Art as Data Analysis, Art as Presentation

May 18-22 (Mon-Fri) 8:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. May 26-29 (Tue-Fri) 8:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.

Artistically crafted novels, poems, films, paintings, and photography have the capacity to awaken us from our stock responses. – Elliot Eisner

Arts-based research can be defined as the systemic use of the artistic process, the actual making of artistic expressions in all of the different forms of arts, as a primary way of understanding and examining experience by both researchers and the people that they involve in their studies. – Shaun McNiff

Arts-based inquiry is uniquely positioned as a methodology for radical, ethical, and revolutionary research that is futuristic, socially responsible, and useful in addressing social inequities. – Susan Finley

Nana Osei-Kofi (oseikofi@iastate.edu)**
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