Thursday, February 3, 2011

New Book on Research in the Arts



Routledge Companion to Research in the Arts
The Routledge Companion to Research in the Arts is a major collection of new writings on research in the creative and performing arts by leading authorities from around the world. It provides theoretical and practical approaches to identifying, structuring and resolving some of the key issues in the debate about the nature of research in the arts which have surfaced during the establishment of this subject over the last decade.

The Routledge Companion to Research in the Arts addresses a wide variety of concepts and issues, including:

* the diversity of views on what constitutes arts-based research and scholarship, what it should be, and its potential contribution

* the trans-national communication difficulties arising from terminological and ontological differences in arts-based research

* traditional and non-traditional concepts of knowledge, their relationship to professional practice, and their outcomes and audiences

* a consideration of the role of written, spoken and artefact-based languages in the formation and communication of understandings.