Thinking with arts-based methodologies for educational research: A conversation between Author 3 and Author 2

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https://doi.org/10.17561/rtc.extra12.10079

Keywords:

Arts Based Research, Artistic Methods, Performative Paradigm, Genealogies

Abstract

This conversation is an adapted transcript of a roundtable held during the opening session of the 8th International Conference on Artistic Research and Arts-based Research, which took place at the University of Girona from November 20 to 22, 2024. The session aimed to provide a historical contextualization of artistic and arts-based research, while also examining its methodological frameworks, inherent tensions, and potentialities. Contributing to the dialogue, Professor Anita Sinner from the University of British Columbia offered insights from her transdisciplinary approach to research, which integrates qualitative methodologies across various forms of artistic inquiry, particularly in relation to curriculum studies and socio-cultural issues in education. Emeritus Professor Fernando Hernández-Hernández of the Faculty of Fine Arts at the University of Barcelona contributed perspectives grounded in his expertise on educational innovation, curricular reform in the arts, and equitable access to culture, learning, and education within contemporary society.

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Author Biographies

  • Fernando Hernández-Hernández, University of Barcelona

    Emeritus Professor at the Cultural Pedagogies Unit, Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Barcelona. He was an extensive carrier leading research projects on how people learn in different contexts and on Arts based Research. He has been among the supporters of the turn called "social reconstructionist art education". 

  • Professor Anita Sinner, British Columbia University

    Anita Sinner is Professor in the Department of Curriculum and Pedagogy. Her research focuses primarily on artwork scholarship, an umbrella term for the arts as research in the field of education that spans arts-based educational inquiry, visual art practice, a/r/tography, artistic practice, performative inquiry, and poetic inquiry, among many approaches

  • Karo Kund, University of Girona

     Serra Húnter Assistent Professor in Language and Literature Teaching at the University of Girona.  Bachelor's degree in Humanities (Autonomous University of Barcelona, 2011), Master's degree in Humanities Research (University of Girona, 2012) and PhD in Arts and Education (University of Girona, 2021).  She is a member of the research group on Education, Heritage and Intermedia Arts (GREPAI) 

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Published

2026-10-01

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No. extra12: Extraordinary Monographic XII. Folds of In-Betweenness: Thinking and Doing Artistic Research and Arts-Based Research

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Hernández-Hernández, F., Sinner, A. and Kunde, K. (2026) “Thinking with arts-based methodologies for educational research: A conversation between Author 3 and Author 2”, Tercio Creciente, (extra12), pp. 13–23. doi:10.17561/rtc.extra12.10079.