ABSTRACT
This chapter offers some evaluative criteria and tool kits for experimenting with various arts and educational research. It highlights the collaborative potential between researchers and participants for creating communities of practice. Artful approaches to contextualizing can allow for multiple stories to be mined from narratives while artful categorizing can yield patterns across documents and interviews or observations. In artful analysis, a more holistic approach is utilized. By using arts, for example, collage, photography, and video, artful analysis entails opening the reading and interpretation of the data to a peripheral vision, one that is intuitive and vulnerable. Arts-based educational research evaluation presents additional challenges. Arts-based educational research is often political and adopts a standpoint, and is frequently messy, complex, and partial. Some scholars have argued that arts-based research needs to emphasize training for researchers and a sharing among researchers about aesthetics. Arts-based educational research has the potential to resist the commodification of research and raise questions regarding the commodification of feelings.
