Uncovering and Exploring the Foundations and Principles of Our Qualitative Research Epistemologies: Reflecting through the Arts
Format Type
Plenary
Format Type
Workshop
Start Date
12-1-2021 11:15 AM
End Date
12-1-2021 12:05 PM
Abstract
Objectives: To: 1 inspire our audience to incorporate the arts to uncover and reflect upon the origins and principles of their qualitative research epistemologies, 2. present arts-based approaches that have potential to extend and alter qualitative researchers’ epistemic frameworks. 3. show how arts-based reflections might serve as a heuristic to help qualitative methods students uncover and explore their epistemologies.
OUR STORY: Recently Janet (our professor) had difficulty helping us (qualitative methods students) reflect on our epistemologies. Like most emerging qualitative researchers, we were confused about the legitimacy of our beliefs. To clarify our thinking, Janet formed a “Community of Interest” in which we employed the arts and turned our lenses inward to unravel the origins and principles of our epistemological positions. We discovered self-inquiry through artistic reflexive renditions of life-long learning experiences, cultural identities, nationality, ethnicity, and, social class helped us untangle the origins and principles of our qualitative researcher epistemologies.
We will initiate this session with a succinct Overview of why and how considering art as research advances knowledge, and in what ways researchers might turn to the arts as personal forms of discovery. Then, we will individually share our arts-based inquiries of “the self” through our music, dance, poetry, reflexive writing, drama, and; research, as expressions of our identities that influence our epistemic beliefs and consequently, our research. We will close the session by sharing what we learned about ourselves, our researcher stance, and the connection between our inquiries and our epistemic positions.
Keywords
epistemology, arts-based, origins and principles of epistemologic beliefs.
Uncovering and Exploring the Foundations and Principles of Our Qualitative Research Epistemologies: Reflecting through the Arts
Objectives: To: 1 inspire our audience to incorporate the arts to uncover and reflect upon the origins and principles of their qualitative research epistemologies, 2. present arts-based approaches that have potential to extend and alter qualitative researchers’ epistemic frameworks. 3. show how arts-based reflections might serve as a heuristic to help qualitative methods students uncover and explore their epistemologies.
OUR STORY: Recently Janet (our professor) had difficulty helping us (qualitative methods students) reflect on our epistemologies. Like most emerging qualitative researchers, we were confused about the legitimacy of our beliefs. To clarify our thinking, Janet formed a “Community of Interest” in which we employed the arts and turned our lenses inward to unravel the origins and principles of our epistemological positions. We discovered self-inquiry through artistic reflexive renditions of life-long learning experiences, cultural identities, nationality, ethnicity, and, social class helped us untangle the origins and principles of our qualitative researcher epistemologies.
We will initiate this session with a succinct Overview of why and how considering art as research advances knowledge, and in what ways researchers might turn to the arts as personal forms of discovery. Then, we will individually share our arts-based inquiries of “the self” through our music, dance, poetry, reflexive writing, drama, and; research, as expressions of our identities that influence our epistemic beliefs and consequently, our research. We will close the session by sharing what we learned about ourselves, our researcher stance, and the connection between our inquiries and our epistemic positions.