Professional Documents
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In the third chapter of your arts-based research project process documents, you must
first be able to evaluate the degree to which your project was incisive, concise, complex
and generative for others. To do this, please answer the following questions with as
QUESTIONS RE INCISIVENESS
According to Barone & Eisner, creative research needs to be concise. For them, a piece
discrimination about the questions the researcher would raise in the minds of the
audience about the social phenomena being researched. (150). Last Fall, we practiced
concision at the proposal writing stage, by explicitly articulating three themes we wanted
to explore in our work. It is now to time to practice concision at the methodological level
by asking: do you believe the creative methods you propose help your audience focus
on your themes?
a. If Yes, how?
1. Barone & Eisner maintain that creatvity as research is less about providing definitive
answers, and more about the researchers desire to complicate, expand on, or bring new
audience?
b. In what way could your creative method bring new perspective to the
the enables one to see or act upon phenomena even though it represents a kind
of case study with an n of only 1. (Barone & Eisner152). The concept of
A. How do you think your methods might help audiences relate their own
of the world that they may not have considered before in this way?