'Tension' and 'care' as cornerstones of criteria for poetic-visual inquiry as arts-based educational research. Issue 3 (1st December 2015)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Yuan, Yanyue; Hickman, Richard
• Is Part Of: Visual inquiry. Volume 4:Issue 3(2015)
• Page Start: 205
• Page End: 220
• Publication Date: 2015-12-01
• Subjects: Art appreciation -- Study and teaching -- Periodicals; Art -- Study and teaching -- Periodicals; 707.1041
• DOI: 10.1386/vi.4.3.205_1
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 2045-5879

Abstract

This article aims to address a number of interrelated issues concerning criteria for arts-based research. We start by responding to current discussions and debates over criteria, with a tacit goal of redefining the nature and goal of emerging visions of doing qualitative-oriented research. After reviewing some emerging frameworks for judging qualitative-oriented research and arts-based studies, we explore the prospect of integrating poetic elements into visual inquiry. This feeds into our suggestion of poetic-visual inquiry as a form of arts-based research, which we elaborate through three existing studies. In relation to this, we raise tension and care as two keys for thinking through researchers' consciousness when carrying out arts-based research.