ABSTRACT
This chapter illustrates various strategies novice educational researchers can use to engage with the arts. It describes various walking methodologies and forms of pedagogical listening and how the approaches can be applied to qualitative arts-based research projects. Walking interviews are a wonderful way to introduce early career researchers to the benefits of engaging on a multisensory level when gathering and shaping data. Arts-based educational research benefits from multisensory data collection environments not only for the richness of the data collected but also for the means of representing and displaying that data. Perspectives inherent in arts-based research that involve walking, pedagogical listening and artful engagements including forms of art making as well as reflexivity can offer ways to engage novice researchers in qualitative projects. Incorporating walking methodologies is one way to enter new spaces where testimonios can be explored, spoken, and narrated with place as a form of surround sound.
