Making Connections in and Through Arts-Based Educational Research

This book collects the artwork, research, and arts-based educational research understandings around the theme of "connections". It emerges from the 3rd bi-annual 2020 Artful Inquiry Research Group symposium on the theme of "connections". This symposium brought together artists, community members, teachers, students, researchers, and teachers through a virtual platform to explore the way(s) that the arts help to connect people, ideas, places, etc., in this pandemic reality.The book explores four themes: socially engaged connections, cultural connects, personal and pedagogical connections, and making connections during the COVID-19 pandemic. Art plays a predominant role in each chapter, as authors weave together their research and art-based understandings. This book is a valuable teaching resource for undergraduate and postgraduate courses in anthropology, digital ethnography, autoethnography, cultural studies, creativity, and communications. It is of interest to higher education students exploring methodologies and academic researchers and teachers in the fields of creative practice and creativity studies, communications, critical studies, sociology, and the arts.