ABSTRACT
This chapter develops the book's comparative approach to arts-based practice with undergraduate students and communicates participants’ understandings of the affective experiences of minority groups. This chapter makes the case for a new comparative approach, through case studies that acknowledge differences between practices that bring visual and other sensory research methodologies into academic course content, and extra-curricular arts practice. This chapter explores the differences between these two main identified strands of approach and how they can assist in transitional experiences.
Some participants are most interested in arts methods for communication and sensory connection in research and learning environments. Some are particularly interested in developing and exhibiting arts practice – therefore encouraging the self-confidence of students and their creative presences at university. The research group's shared intentions of building collaborative, inclusive, dialogical spaces that encourage self-representation and well-being will be exemplified through their relation to practice.
