Description: This book explores an emerging approach to research that combines arts practices and scholarship in participatory, community-based, and collaborative contexts in Canada across disciplines. Looking at a variety of art forms, the contributors explore how the process of creating together generates and disseminates collective knowledge.
Brief description: Diane Conrad is an associate professor of drama/theatre education at the University of Alberta. Her participatory, arts-based research involves work with high-risk and incarcerated youth. She is the director of the Arts-based Research Studio at University of Alberta. Her recent publications include Athabasca's Going Unmanned: An Ethnodrama about Incarcerated Youth (2012).