Arts Based Research

Arts Based Research isideal for students researchers and practitioners. This unique book provides a framework for broadening the domain of qualitative inquiry in the social sciences by incorporating the arts as a means of better understanding and rethinking important social issues. In the book''s 10 thought-provoking chapters authors Tom Barone and Elliot W. Eisner--pioneers in the field--address key aspects of arts based research including its purpose and fundamental ideas controversies that surround the field and the politics and ethics involved and key criteria for evaluation.