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¶

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q2 i? Reviewed authors reported empowerment, feelings of pride and increased wellbeing and confidence after participation, alongside institutional and audience transformation. → Sara Coemans 2017 q2 i? Arts-based data were described as rich, authentic, evocative and capturing alternative vocabularies not expressible in oral interviews. → Sara Coemans 2017 (2) q2 i? Few articles specified outcomes or evaluation procedures, so reported strengths may be author perceptions rather than evaluated results. → Sara Coemans 2017 (3)

Evidence¶

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 reported strengths, situating findings in McKean's three types of transformation: personal, institutional and audience. Participants reported "feelings of pride and increased wellbeing and confidence after participation"; arts-based inquiry also offered a safe space for dialogue on sensitive issues.

"Hence, the use of arts-based methods led to empowerment in many studies. Several times, participants described a marked change following their participation."

Sara Coemans 2017 (2)¶

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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The review reports, citing Tolia-Kelly (2007), that arts-based data captured "alternative vocabularies and visual grammars" beyond oral interviews; Kaptani and Yuval-Davis (2008) are cited noting arts-based methods produced experiential and emotive moments where interviews produced chronological stories or normative perceptions.

"Tolia-Kelly (2007) argued for example that it captured “alternative vocabularies and visual grammars that are not always encountered or expressible in oral interviews” (p. 340)."

Sara Coemans 2017 (3)¶

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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The review's own critical assessment of the strength reports: because few articles specified outcomes or evaluation procedures, the authors "assume that many of these statements are perceptions of the authors instead of results from evaluations" and call for more evaluative studies.

"However, it was unclear whether these statements were actually informed by the data collected and by an evaluation of the process. Few articles in this database specified outcomes or evaluation procedures."

Discussion¶

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