ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the authors begin by presenting the origins of the Arts-Based Approaches and later explain that there are broadly three different types of arts-based research. They outline ways in which these approaches have been adopted and suggest too that such approaches need to be located more centre stage in the field of qualitative research. Arts-based approaches use arts, in the broadest sense, to explore, understand and represent human action and experience. The approaches within this genre use media to provoke questions in audiences; for example, by taking a stance on a social issue and/or political concern. Arts-based approaches should be adopted when the researchers, artists or participants want to use arts-based media to shape and explore meaning. Data collection in arts-based approaches is invariably elicited differently and often in less formal ways than activities such as interviewing and focus groups.
