Arts-Based Research Across Visual Media in Education Expanding Visual Epistemology - Volume 2

 Introduction: The Words (and Images) Mean Me

Jason D. DeHart

The University of Tennessee, Knoxville

Volume II, Section I: Comics and Static Visuals

Chapter 1 

Clearer and clearer and clearer still: The promise and providence of comics-based research methods in education

Sally Campbell Pirie, PhD

University of Massachusetts-Amherst

Chapter 2 

Classroom Marvels: Exploring Comics in Middle School Literacy Instruction

Jason D. DeHart, PhD, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville

Adam Pyles, Hardin Park Elementary, Boone, NC

Chapter 3

What Drawing Can Lead Us to See: Drawing Cartoons with Student Researchers

Tesni Ellis

York University

Chapter 4

Bringing Children’s Play into Literacy Events: Critical Multimodal Discourse Analysis as a Tool for Understanding

Rachel Skrlac Lo

Angela M. Wiseman

NC State University

Chapter 5

Visual Critical Topography in Comics Worlds

Jason D. DeHart, PhD

The University of Tennessee, Knoxville

Volume II, Section II: Journals and Notes in the Field

Chapter 6

Visual Journaling as Method

Theresa Redmond

Appalachian State University

Chapter 7

Through the Looking-glass: Creating and Reading Multimodal Fieldnotes 

Suriati Abas

State University of New York College at Oneonta

Volume II, Section III: Exploring (Even) Further Methods

Chapter 8

When a Single Song Just Won’t Do: The Mixtape as Research Methodology

René Saldaña, Ph.D.

Texas Tech University

Elizabeth Stewart

Texas Tech University

Chapter 9

What the Concepts of Curating and the Curatorial Can Do

Ran Xiang

University of British Columbia

Chapter 10

Resilience and Solidarity Building on Instagram: Exploring Art, Activism, and Participatory Analysis with Indigenous Peoples and 2SLGBTQ+ Youth in the Wabanaki Confederacy 

Casey Burkholder, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton

Starlit Simon, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton

Biography

Jason D. DeHart is a writer, researcher, and teacher who currently lives in North Carolina. DeHart earned his PhD in Literacy Studies from The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, in 2019. He has written widely about the use of comics in classroom work and in research; additionally, DeHart writes about the use of film and media. He has served as a middle school, high school, and university-level teacher. He is also the coeditor of two Routledge volumes, Teaching Challenged and Challenging Topics in Diverse and Inclusive Literature: Addressing the Taboo in the English Classroom (2023) and Connecting Theory and Practice in Middle School Literacy: Critical Conversations (2021).

Peaches Hash, Ed.D., is currently a lecturer within Appalachian State University’s Department of English and an English teacher for Johns Hopkins University’s Center for Talented Youth. Her research interests include expressive arts, arts-based educational research, composition studies, and gifted education.

'Editor Jason DeHart assembles an impressive array of contributors for this unique collection of arts-based research resources. The chapters address the spectrum of artistic modalities from poetry to music, from comics to movement, and from ethnodrama to visual art. A diverse range of scholars bring their contemporary, experiential voices to their stories, writing with insight, passion, humor, and vulnerability. Qualitative researchers from multiple disciplines will find the two-volume Arts-Based Research Across Textual/Visual Media in Education a valuable and inspirational reference for creative approaches to social inquiry.'

Johnny Saldaña, Professor Emeritus, Arizona State University