This book offers a practical, methodological guide to conducting arts-based research with children by drawing on five years of the authorsâ experience carrying out arts-based research with children in Australia and the UK. Based on the Australian Research Council-funded Interfaith Childhoods project, the authors describe methods of engaging communities and making data
with children that foreground childrenâs experiences and worldviews through making, being with, and viewing art. Framing these methods of doing, seeing, being, and believing through art as modes of understanding childrenâs strategies for negotiating personal identities and values, this book explores the value of arts-based research as a means of obtaining complex information about childrenâs life worlds that can be difficult to express verbally.