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- Title
Researcher-Portraitists: An Exploration of Aesthetics and Research Quality.
- Authors
Schoenberg Muccio, Leah; Reybold, L. Earle; Kidd, Julie
- Abstract
In this article, we critique the use of portraiture as a qualitative research method, emphasizing the relationship between the fundamental aspects of portraiture and the recurring themes of research quality associated with alternative qualitative inquiry. To accomplish this goal, we conducted a study of culturally responsive practices of three first-year teachers and analyzed the data using both constant comparison and portraiture techniques. In addition to constructing poetic portraits of the teachers, we examined the intersection of aesthetics and quality research, especially in relation to researcher identity. The study--and subsequent critique of portraiture--challenges critics who question the value and goodness of the method, the same constructs emphasized by Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot in her 2005 exposition of portraiture as a social science method. Further, we critique our own methodological comfort zones, thus rejecting the either/or mentality of methodological fundamentalism exhibited both outside and within the field of qualitative research.
- Subjects
PORTRAITS -- Social aspects; QUALITATIVE research; BEGINNING teachers; ART &; science; AESTHETICS -- Social aspects; TEACHERS in art; CULTURALLY relevant education; EDUCATION
- Publication
International Journal of Education & the Arts, 2015, Vol 16, Issue 1-3, p1
- ISSN
1529-8094
- Publication type
Article