Researchers adopt arts-based methods in community-based inquiry to challenge language-oriented methods, reduce power imbalances, give voice to vulnerable participants, engage hard-to-verbalize issues, motivate participation, and reach wider audiences¶

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q2 i? The most frequently cited rationale was challenging the limitations of conventional language-oriented research methods; other rationales included overcoming power imbalances, giving participants voice, exploring issues difficult to verbalize, heightening interest, and communicating findings beyond academic communities. → Sara Coemans 2017

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Sara Coemans 2017¶

Sara Coemans, Karin Hannes. (2017). Researchers Under the Spell of the Arts: Two Decades of Using Arts-Based Methods in Community-Based Inquiry with Vulnerable Populations. Educational Research Review. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.edurev.2017.08.003

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Narrative synthesis of rationales across the 131 included studies. The review reports authors used artistic techniques to conduct research "with participants rather than on them", to articulate unique experiences, and to share knowledge beyond academic communities. Authors often gave multiple reasons but were less explicit about why a specific technique was chosen.

"A frequently cited reason was that they were used to challenge the limitations of conventional language-oriented research methods"

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• Arts-based methods in community-based research with vulnerable populations grew steadily in use from 1993 to 2013, with 90% of the 131 reviewed studies published between 2004 and 2013 — related
• Analyzing arts-based data was one of the biggest challenges in community-based arts-based research: what counts as data was unclear, conventional textual analyses dominated, and researcher-led versus participant-led interpretation each risked stereotyping — related
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• Reported strengths of arts-based methods include participant-driven engagement, personal, institutional and audience transformation, and richer data than traditional interviews, but few studies evaluated these outcomes — related