Upcoming event
In what ways does, or could, arts-based research shape our understanding of ‘truth’? How can creative methodologies expand traditional research paradigms? This online workshop invites researchers at all career stages to critically explore the premises and assumptions of arts-based research and its implications for ways that we conceive truth in educational and academic contexts.
In this online workshop Dr Lucy Rycroft-Smith (Researcher, University of Cambridge) and Joe Howlett-Reeves (Secondary music teacher and composer) discuss the wider issues of ‘truth’ and arts-based research alongside their experiences of a study conducted together to investigate educational knowledge brokering through composing songs with and about research. We offer these ideas as a useful contribution to the field of arts-based research in considering, through the context of our study, its relationship to ‘truth’ in the context of research in education.
This event aims to explore the premises and assumptions of arts-based research, examining how it shapes different conceptions of ‘truth’ in educational and academic contexts, while providing researchers with opportunities to reflect on its implications for their own work. In particular, we will explore the idea of writing songs about and with research, and what we (a researcher and a teacher-composer) have found in terms of ways that arts-based research may help to reveal complexities around, mediate relationships with and support investigations of ‘truth’. We hope participants will come away with a deeper understanding of this issues and further questions and critical responses to continue to take forward.
Draft Programme:
5:00pm Introduction; Kathleen Pithouse-Morgan, University of
Nottingham; Lucy Barker, Northumbria University; Rebecca
Berkley, University of Reading
5:05pm Speaker 1; Lucy Rycroft-Smith, University of Cambridge
5:25pm Speaker 2; Joe Howlett-Reeves, St. James Catholic High
School
5:45pm Q&A
5:55pm Closing Remarks; Kathleen Pithouse-Morgan, Lucy Barker,
Rebecca Berkley
6:00pm Close of Event
Professor at University of Nottingham
Kathleen Pithouse-Morgan is Professor of Education at the University of Nottingham. She specialises in professional learning, self-reflexive scholarship and arts-based educational research. Her recent book, Poetic Inquiry for the Social and Human...
Assistant Professor at Northumbria University, Newcastle
Lucy Barker is an Associate Professor in Initial Teacher Education at Northumbria University, Newcastle. Her arts-based research work is informed and deepened by her theoretical framework which draws on a combination of thinkers from the fields...
Associate Professor in Music Education at University of Reading
Rebecca Berkley is an Associate Professor in Music Education at the University of Reading. Her areas of interest are classroom musicianship, choral education, musical leadership and musical cognition. She is the co-director of the Postgraduate...
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