Imagination and Arts-Based Practices for Integration in Research

Imagination and Arts-Based Practices for Integration in Research explores the philosophical assumptions, defining concepts, and methodological issues related to integrating intentional imaginative mental processes and arts-based practices into research. It introduces a paradigm shift from traditional scientific thinking to multi-dimensional, nondiscursive, aesthetic, rhizomatic, and imaginative processes. The book provides illustrations and approaches for investigating, revealing, and understanding the meanings hidden in diverse data sets, leading to integration, illumination, and synthesis. It appeals to arts-based, mixed methods, and adventurous researchers.

Format: Hardback
Length: 78 pages
Publication date: 28 February 2022
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Imagination and Arts-Based Practices for Integration in Research delves into the philosophical foundations, conceptual frameworks, and methodological challenges associated with incorporating deliberate imaginative mental processes and arts-based practices into various stages of inquiry and the integration of specific research approaches. While typically integral to mixed, multi-method, and arts-based research, the practice of integrating diverse forms of data can also be applied to other research traditions. The integration of data diversity represents a departure from traditional scientific thinking, necessitating a profound paradigm shift that encompasses multi-dimensional, non-discursive, aesthetic, rhizomatic, and imaginative mental processes.

In this comprehensive book, imaginative mental processes and arts-based practices are explored and presented as methodologies for investigating, revealing, and comprehending the enigmatic yet vital meanings concealed within the interstices, shadows, and transitional spaces between diverse data sets, ultimately leading to integration, illumination, and synthesis. This book will captivate arts-based, mixed methods, and adventurous researchers, guiding them through the re-evaluated philosophical assumptions and providing aligned methodological recommendations for the induction of imaginative mental processes and arts-based practices into research.

Weight: 228g
Dimension: 142 x 222 x 13 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781032196404