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An Introduction to the private museum in Fort Worth Texas dedicate to collage, assemblage and constructive art

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Collage Inquiry

Qualitative Inquiry unites the basics of research design in qualitative research with the practice of analyzing qualitative data. This textbook is about the theory and practice of choosing and designing a qualitative approach and methodological and analytical ramifications that follow from making such choices. It aims to set out the theoretical underpinnings behind different methodological choices and to help students then follow up on (and interrogate) such approaches. This book examines theory, method and interpretation in a way that is meaningful to students and new researchers, as well as discussing newer, more avant-garde, developments in qualitative research in arts-informed inquiry. It is essential reading for students who are seeking to make sense of their research and their developing theoretical standpoints.

294 Article Collage Portraits as a Method of Analysis in Qualitative Research Paula Gerstenblatt, PhD Assistant Professor School of Social Work Universit…

The Power of Visual Approaches in Qualitative Inquiry: The Use of Collage Making and Concept Mapping in Experiential Research

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Collage Joe Norris

Collage is an arts-based research approach to meaning-making through the juxtaposition of a variety of pictures, artifacts, natural objects, words, phrases, textiles, sounds, and stories. It is not meant to provide one-to-one transfer of information; rather, it strives to create metaphoric evocative texts through which readers, audiences, and patrons create their own meanings on a given research topic. Usually, material is taken out of context from a range of sources and used to create a new assemblage from the bricolage collected. What underpins the creation of research collages is the attempt to construct meanings about the research question and/or process, the participants, and emerging themes. Although collage is traditionally thought of as an artistic product, Donna Davis and Lynn Butler-Kisber focused on its analytic function with the belief that meaning can be mediated through images.

Part 1: Ways of Knowing

An Introduction to Qualitative Research Revised Reading Prompts

1. The article talks about the nature of a question. What kind of question do you have? For instance, is it open ended, experiential? What makes it that way? Where does your question come from; for instance, a review of the literature, your own experience? Is it an emerging question growing out of grounded theory? Connect any relevant voices on this topic from your own literature review. My question is open ended and experiential. This is because it invites many different responses, there is not one response that I am looking for, and I hope to discover new things that I didn’t imagine. There is not one solidified answer to my questions, and I am interested in finding out many different responses and opinions, as well as figuring out my own response, and comparing them. My question comes from my own experiences of teaching collage to students, as well as making collages myself. My questions will explore the process of collage, and students interactions with the experience, as well as my own.

2. One of your goals in your thesis is to situate your research as qualitative. This article offers an entry point to many perspectives on what constitutes qualitative research. Briefly summarize what qualitative research is and does. Connect any relevant voices on this topic from your own literature review. Qualitative research is a method of research that extends our understandings, rather than providing us with strict numerical information. It is a process of describing, analyzing, and interpreting the insights that we discover through our research. Qualitative methods begin with observing in the natural setting. Some approaches to qualitative research are ethnography, phenomenology, case study, narrative analysis, action research, or arts-based research.

3. Qualitative researchers, therefore, must explain their approach and selection of methods (Smith, 1978; Stokrocki, 1991). Based on the summary of the types of inquiry described in this article, what are your initial thoughts as to your own research study and process of translation? What type(s) of approach do you think you might use and why do you think this? Connect any relevant voices on this topic from your own literature review. My main approach that I will use in my study is art-based research. This is because I will be using the artistic process of collage to understand and examine the experience for myself, and for the students that I will be observing and participating with for my study. The result of the art work that is made by the students, and myself, will be a large portion of my data collection. I will be making collages throughout my whole study to try and understand the process more, as well as discover new ways to use it, and how it is affected under different circumstances. I will also use the approach of a case study for certain aspects, since I am searching for understandings of a complex idea.

4. Narrative: At this stage in your process, how are you going to gain access to your research site? If this is a case study involving people, how are you establishing trust? How might your research impact them? ? Connect any relevant voices on this topic from your own literature review. I hope to use the Pratt Institute Youth Programs as my research site. Since I already have a relationship with the professors, and some of the student teachers, it will be easy to do some observations. I am also going to try and see if I can conduct a lesson or two, and cooperate with one of the teachers to collect more data for my study. Since the students have already signed waivers, I will not need to go through all of the paperwork to gain access. Since I hope to work with high school students, I will explain to them my purposes for this study. I will explain how it is in no way affecting them, but that it may even inspire them to start thinking about using the process of collage in their work, and think about it in a new way. It may open their eyes up to new ideas an excite them. If it doesn’t, they have still learned something new about an art process, so there is nothing lost.

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Methods of Data Collection

Reading Prompts

1 How is your research connected to your own lived experience? My research will require me to use myself as a subject, as well as use my own past experiences. I will incorporate my findings from Saturday Art School last semester to talk about some outcomes of my collage lessons that I did with my class. I will also be making my own collages continuously throughout my research to grasp a better understanding of the process of collage, and how context, materials, or constraints, can effect my feelings towards the art making.

2 At this point, in conceptualizing your study, what are specific aspects of your data that you imagine examining deeply and how do you imagine doing this- i.e. what methods are you using to enhance your investigation? I am interested in the process of collage, as well as the outcome. My observations of a class participating in a collage activity will help me to find out how kids are reacting to the materials. Are they excited, frustrated, does the room go silent with concentration? Having students write a reflection of their experience doing collage, as well as analyzing the final products, will be a large source of data for my study. Comparing this project to a different project that the students do, such as figure drawing, will also allow me to gather data by analyzing what they are enjoying more, and which lesson is more successful and why.

3 After reading this article, what other methods might be used in conjunction to shape your lens and allow for other ways of understanding the data (triangulation)? I will use the “What? How? Why?” method to allow me to do a deeper observation during the students process. It will bring my concrete observations of a particular situation to the more abstract emotions and motives that are at play in the situation. I will also use the “Journey map” method to think about the steps or milestones of the process of collage for myself, and the students. This will allow me to track my observations in a more detailed way.

4 If applicable, how do you propose gaining entry into your site? Use the points described by Bogden & Biklen to think about this. (note: Bodgen & Biklen are authors mentioned in the “Being a Careful Observer” reading) I hope to use the Pratt Institute Youth Programs as my site. This should not be disruptive since I already have a relationship to some of the professors and student teachers who are used to having observers in their classrooms. The students are also used to having observers in the studio almost at all times. If I can work out being able to run the class myself, I will make sure to explain to the students my intents and purposes. I will make sure to let them know that they are not subjects, but that this activity may even make themselves realize something new about their art making process, or their relationship to collage. I will explain to them what I will do with my findings as well.

5 If applicable, what might be your relationship between you as the observer and the observed? Outline your emerging notions about this at this point? How will you deal with issues of power? I will most likely be an observer as participant or participant as observer, depending on if I am able to teach a class myself, or observe one being taught. This is because my observer activities will be known to the group, the students will be aware of why I am there. The relationship I choose will depend the amount of participation I am able to do.

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Part 1: Ways of Knowing An Introduction to Qualitative Research

Reading Prompt #1 (Before I changed my thesis topic)

To be revised...

1. My question is open ended and experiential. This is because it invites many different responses. There is not one solidified answer to my questions, and I am interested in finding out many different responses and opinions, as well as figuring out my own response, and comparing them. My question comes from my own experiences, having been a part of a rigorous art program in high school. It also comes from my observations of the state of art education in New York City today and my feelings towards certain aspects of it.

2. Qualitative research is a method of research that extends our understandings, rather than providing us with strict numerical information. It is a process of describing, analyzing, and interpreting the insights that we discover through our research. Qualitative methods begin with observing in the natural setting. Some approaches to qualitative research are ethnography, phenomenology, case study, narrative analysis, action research, or arts-based research.

3. The approaches that I think I might use for my research study are case study, narrative analysis, and arts based research. I will use a case study method, because it is a search for an understanding of a complex case, and since my questions are open ended and experiential, I have a lot that I need to find out to gain a better understanding of the art programs that I am researching. I will use a narrative analysis since I hope to be able to tell stories of the students that I am observing, and use that to inspire my arts-based research, where I will create artwork to represent my research study.

4. To gain access to my research sites, I will have to contact art teachers and ask for permission. I will explain my research study and my reasons for wanting to observe their class, and I will hope for the best. I will establish trust with the people I observe or speak to by explaining to them what I am researching, and why I am interested in this topic. Making a closer relationship with the people involved and explaining myself will make them more comfortable with participating. My research might impact them by giving them a new insight into their own art program, and having them think about it in a new way.

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