Critical reflections on methodological challenge in arts and dementia evaluation and research
Methodological rigour, or its absence, is often a focus of concern for the emerging field of evaluation and research around arts and dementia. However, this paper suggests that critical attention should also be paid to the way in which individual perceptions, hidden assumptions and underlying social...
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| author | Gray, Karen Chester Evans, Simon Griffiths, Amanda Schneider, Justine M. |
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| description | Methodological rigour, or its absence, is often a focus of concern for the emerging field of evaluation and research around arts and dementia. However, this paper suggests that critical attention should also be paid to the way in which individual perceptions, hidden assumptions and underlying social and political structures influence methodological work in the field. Such attention will be particularly important for addressing methodological challenges relating to contextual variability, ethics, value judgement, and signification identified through a literature review on this topic. Understanding how, where and when evaluators and researchers experience such challenges may help to identify fruitful approaches for future evaluation.
This paper is based upon a presentation on the subject given at the First International Research Conference on the Arts and Dementia: Theory, Methodology and Evidence on 9 March 2017. |
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| spelling | nottingham-454202020-05-04T19:10:39Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/45420/ Critical reflections on methodological challenge in arts and dementia evaluation and research Gray, Karen Chester Evans, Simon Griffiths, Amanda Schneider, Justine M. Methodological rigour, or its absence, is often a focus of concern for the emerging field of evaluation and research around arts and dementia. However, this paper suggests that critical attention should also be paid to the way in which individual perceptions, hidden assumptions and underlying social and political structures influence methodological work in the field. Such attention will be particularly important for addressing methodological challenges relating to contextual variability, ethics, value judgement, and signification identified through a literature review on this topic. Understanding how, where and when evaluators and researchers experience such challenges may help to identify fruitful approaches for future evaluation. This paper is based upon a presentation on the subject given at the First International Research Conference on the Arts and Dementia: Theory, Methodology and Evidence on 9 March 2017. SAGE 2017-10-05 Article PeerReviewed Gray, Karen, Chester Evans, Simon, Griffiths, Amanda and Schneider, Justine M. (2017) Critical reflections on methodological challenge in arts and dementia evaluation and research. Dementia . ISSN 1741-2684 arts evaluation methodology methodological challenge epistemology methods complexity http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1471301217734478 doi:10.1177/1471301217734478 doi:10.1177/1471301217734478 |
| spellingShingle | arts evaluation methodology methodological challenge epistemology methods complexity Gray, Karen Chester Evans, Simon Griffiths, Amanda Schneider, Justine M. Critical reflections on methodological challenge in arts and dementia evaluation and research |
| title | Critical reflections on methodological challenge in arts and dementia evaluation and research |
| title_full | Critical reflections on methodological challenge in arts and dementia evaluation and research |
| title_fullStr | Critical reflections on methodological challenge in arts and dementia evaluation and research |
| title_full_unstemmed | Critical reflections on methodological challenge in arts and dementia evaluation and research |
| title_short | Critical reflections on methodological challenge in arts and dementia evaluation and research |
| title_sort | critical reflections on methodological challenge in arts and dementia evaluation and research |
| topic | arts evaluation methodology methodological challenge epistemology methods complexity |
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