Can Approaches to Research in Art and Design Be Beneficially Adapted for Research into Higher Education?

Autor/in	Trowler, Paul
Titel	Can Approaches to Research in Art and Design Be Beneficially Adapted for Research into Higher Education?
Quelle	In: Higher Education Research and Development, 32 (2013) 1, S.56-69 (14 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0729-4360
DOI	10.1080/07294360.2012.750276
Schlagwörter	Media Adaptation; Research Methodology; Art Education; Design; Research Skills; Educational Research; Higher Education; Research Opportunities; Educational Practices; Technology Transfer; Semi Structured Interviews + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Medienverwendung; Research method; Forschungsmethode; Arts; Education; Art in Education; Kunst; Bildung; Erziehung; Forschungsleistung; Bildungsforschung; Pädagogische Forschung; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Forschungshaushalt; Bildungspraxis; Technologietransfer
Abstract	This paper examines the research practices in Art and Design that are distinctively different from those common in research into higher education outside those fields. It considers whether and what benefit could be derived from their adaptation by the latter. The paper also examines the factors that are conducive and obstructive to adaptive transfer happening. Founded in the relevant literature, the paper uses 16 semi-structured interviews with academic staff in the disciplines of Graphic Design, Design for Performance, Fine Art and Fashion in an English Arts university. It concludes that there are features of Art and Design research that could be beneficial and that, in some cases, these also meet the necessary conditions for successful adaptation: salience to higher education researchers and profitability in relation to some of the goals of research in that field. However, such practices may not be congruent with dominant approaches in research into higher education, a further condition of successful adaptation, and there may be concerns in some cases around the issue of "rigour". The overall conclusion, therefore, is a qualified one. (Contains 2 notes and 1 figure.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10