What Do Arts-Based Methods Do? A Story of (What Is) Art and Online Research With Children During a Pandemic

Julie Spray, Hannah Fechtel and Jean Hunleth
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Julie Spray: National University of Ireland Galway, Ireland
Hannah Fechtel: University of Florida, USA
Jean Hunleth: Washington University in St. Louis, USA

Sociological Research Online, 2022, vol. 27, issue 3, 574-586

Abstract: This comic draws viewers behind the final product and into the process of arts-based research. Specifically, we focus on research produced over Zoom during the Covid-19 pandemic. Based on a study of asthma caregiving, we illustrate how a 10-year-old study participant, Becca, and researcher Hannah connected in embodied, sensory and material-spatial ways across digital space through the making and unmaking of art forms using simple sensory-sculptural materials (pipe cleaners, play-doh, balloons). We consider what arts-based methods do : for the participant, the researcher, their relationship, and ethical knowledge production. And we show what research processes can look like as unpredictable, messy and patient communing.

Keywords: arts-based methods; asthma; childhood; pandemic (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1177/13607804211055492

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