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Artistic Significance, Creativity, and Innovation Using Art as Research

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Art as research; Art-based research; Artistic research; Imagination; Inventiveness; Practice as research; Practice-based research

Introduction to Art as Research

In recent decades there has been considerable interest in research rooted in practice, which has begun to establish a range of new research paradigms that move away from scientific ways of investigating to approaches more useful to the creative practitioner where objectification, statistical analysis, and control groups may be of less usefulness. Unlike science, detachment, objectivity, controlled experimentation, random trials, and rationality do not reach the heart of artistic inquiry. In artistic research there are particular art-based considerations, which means that science or social science is not the mode of inquiry.

Approaches to research depend on epistemologies, which vary considerably across disciplines and even within specific disciplines. The range of new possibilities is complex, and this complexity is...

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  1. University of Wolverhampton, Wolverhampton, UK

    Ross W. Prior

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  1. WMIER, The University of Waikato WMIER, Hamilton, Waikato, New Zealand

    Michael A. Peters

  2. Faculty of Education, University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand

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  2. Aston University, Birmingham, UK

    Sarah Hayes

  3. Department of Informatics and Computing, Zagreb University of Applied Sciences, Zagreb, Croatia

    Petar Jandrić

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Prior, R.W. (2019). Artistic Significance, Creativity, and Innovation Using Art as Research. In: Peters, M., Heraud, R. (eds) Encyclopedia of Educational Innovation. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-2262-4_64-1

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