Imagination and Arts-Based Practices for Integration in Research

Nancy Gerber

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2022
• ISBN:
  9781000587234
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Psychology
• Subtopic: Research & Methodology in Psychology
• Index: Psychology

Imagination and Arts-Based Practices for Integration in Research explores the philosophical assumptions, defining concepts, and methodological issues related to the introduction of intentional imaginative mental processes and arts-based practices into some or all phases of investigation, and data integration of particular research approaches.

Although typically central to mixed, multi-method, and arts-based research, the practice of integrating diverse forms of data might be applied to other research traditions. The integration of data diversity represents a deviation from traditional scientific thinking demanding a dramatic paradigm shift inclusive of multi-dimensional, nondiscursive, aesthetic, rhizomatic, and imaginative mental processes. In this book, imaginative mental processes and arts-based practices are described and illustrated as approaches to investigating, revealing, and understanding the elusive yet essential meanings hidden in the crevices, shadows, and liminal spaces in between diverse data sets leading to integration, illumination, and synthesis.

The book will appeal to arts-based, mixed methods, and adventurous researchers. It walks the reader through the revisionist philosophical assumptions and offers aligned methodological suggestions to the induction of imaginative mental processes and arts-based practices into research.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Series
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• List of tables
• Acknowledgments
• Preface
• 1 Introduction
• 2 Imagination: changing worldview and social discourse
• 3 Dialectical aesthetic intersubjectivity: a philosophical perspective
• 4 Imagination in research: reconceptualizing method, data, and evidence
• 5 Imaginative processes and arts-based practices in research
• 6 Imagination and integration in mixed and multi-method research
• 7 Integration using imagination processes and arts-based practices
• 8 Conclusion
• Index