inaugural text in the groundbreaking CAIP, Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice, Research Series. This contemporary research text introduces an emerging and rapidly growing field with a dynamic collection of illustrative articles about the creative arts in research, action and interdisciplinary practice. First hand topical accounts are featured from leading academics, health researchers, nurse educators, physicians, educators, environmentalists, artists and others who actively use the creative arts in interdisciplinary practice in cutting edged research and in methodologies for health, hope and change. Readers will learn how the creative arts can offer unique opportunities to embody and re-illuminate the human story, stage human vulnerability, foster citizenship and give voice to narratives of human experience. Researchers candidly share their experiences with the creative arts in research while voicing the stories of the work in practice. A varied and multifaceted collection of creative research in action, this is an accessible yet highly informative academic text that enlightens the reader about the inquiries and the processes while offering first hand insights into approaches, how to method based exercises and lists of comprehensive references.
Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice, Inquiries for Hope and Change, the first text in the CAIP Research Series, is an action oriented and transformative research text that points to a new path for hope and change while showing how the creative arts in inquiry and in action applied across disciplines can make a critical difference for individuals and society ..an information rich text which demonstrates through compelling accounts how the creative arts can uniquely cross disciplines and fields in search of solutions while creating new communities for change in the process. "Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice, Inquiries for Hope and Change" is a contemporary research collection that features methods that are participative, communal, active and experiential. It speaks of approaches that foster and encourage deep and multi-sensory communication and embodied forms of expression with elements visual, emotional, physical and spiritual. This contemporary text brings together a diverse field that stresses the vital importance of the human story, a body of work that seeks to help give voice to the silenced, the oppressed and the marginalized, narrative accounts of personal transformation that honour creative expression as fundamental and at the very source of human meaning and purpose. We invite you to journey through these articles and share in accounts of the creative arts in interdisciplinary practice for hope and change. The field awaits." -- C. McLean, editor CAIP series "First hand topical accounts are featured from leading academics, health researchers, nurse educators, physicians, educators, environmentalists, artists and others who actively use the creative arts in interdisciplinary practice in cutting edged research and in methodologies for health, hope and change. Readers will discover how the creative arts in interdisciplinary practice can re-illuminate the human story, stage human vulnerability, foster citizenship and give voice to narratives of human experience. This is a contemporary research text that asks questions seeking vital solutions to the most critical social crises of our times while sharing courageous accounts of life and personal transformation." About the Editors: Editor, Cheryl McLean, Publisher of The International Journal of The Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice, IJCAIP , Associate Editor, Robert Kelly, Faculty of Fine Art, University of Calgary
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