Intersectionality: An Arts-Based Approach to Student Awareness offers insights into the importance of understanding contemporary diversity and inclusion while applying arts-based research and reporting, such as poetry and visual ethnography, to expand knowledge acquisition.
Intersectionality: An Arts-Based Approach to Student Awareness provides easy-to-understand principles to a better understanding of the study of full-spectrum diversity and inclusion as well as examples of arts-based research and reporting that can further enhance the mélange of STEM and the arts research (STEAM), in which there is a growing interest among academics and the general public.
This edition can be a valuable addition to the working library and a reference for educators and/or learners who are engaged in and/or interested in qualitative, quantitative, mixed methods research. Individuals who are aficionados of the arts can also learn more about the expressions of feelings of sample learners and how they make meaning of arts-based research and reporting as well for general interest.
An apt inclusion in course curricula for face-to-face and online courses in Communication, Sociology, Psychology, Humanities, and other behavioral sciences, the arts, and research methods and theory courses. Intersectionality: An Arts-Based Approach to Student Awareness may be utilized as a stand-alone text, as a supplement to the primary coursework, or as a general interest offering.
Preface
About the Author
Chapter 1 Intersectionalities of Identity and Arts-Based Applications
INTERSECTIONS OF IDENTITY
SITUATED CONTEXT
THE GENDER AND COMMUNICATION COURSE
HEGEMONY AND DISCRIMINATION
RESEARCH IN SITUATED CONTEXT
PURPOSE AND MAKING MEANING
Chapter 2 What About the Literature and Guiding Perspectives?
GUIDING PERSPECTIVES
THE SYMBOLS OF COMMUNICATION
GUIDING QUALITATIVE/ARTS-BASED METHOD
MEANING-MAKING AND INTERSECTIONALITY
VIEWS ON LEARNING
POETRY
Chapter 3 Method
RESEARCH DESIGN
STUDY CONTEXT: THE ONLINE COURSE
PARTICIPANTS AND PSEUDONYMS
MATERIALS
PROCEDURE
DATA ANALYSIS PLAN
Chapter 4 Results
THE POEMS
Chapter 5 Discussion—What Does It All Mean?
LIMITATIONS AND FUTURE DIRECTIONS
References
Appendix
A “AIN'T I A WOMAN?” SPEECH
B VIGNETTES READ BY PARTICIPANTS
C SAMPLES OF ALTERNATIVE EXTRA CEDIT OPPORTUNITIES FOR NONPARTICIPANTS IN THE CLASS
D SAMPLE FULL-CLASS ASSIGNMENTS
E CODE SHEET, POEM ONE, RELATIVE TO RQ1
F CODE SHEET, POEM TWO, RELATIVE TO RQ2
G CODE SHEET, POEM THREE, RELATIVE TO RQ
H CODE SHEET, POEM FOUR, RELATIVE TO RQ4
I CODE SHEET, POEM FIVE, RELATIVE TO RQ5
J COURSE SYLLABUS
TABLE 1. Poem Assignment Timetable
LARRY
EDMONDS
Edmonds earned his undergraduate and graduate degrees in Communication at Arizona State University, where he was named a Dessie E. Larsen Fellow. He subsequently earned his post-graduate certificate in Gerontology from ASU at the West campus. He also earned his doctorate of education in leadership and innovation at ASU. Edmonds was a Spring 2022 Barrett Emeritus Fellow, is an Honors faculty member at ASU, and has been awarded two Outstanding Faculty Teaching Awards. He began teaching at ASU in the year 2000 and is an accomplished keynote speaker, appearing at a number national and regional conferences.
He is a professional speaker and is listed with various speakers bureaus. He also was awarded the Robert B. Rutherford, Jr. Memorial Fellowship while earning his doctorate and the Dessie E. Larsen Fellowship (Communication/Performance Studies) during his M.A. studies. From the community, Larry was awarded a OneAZ Credit Union Community Leadership scholarship, as well. Edmonds is a current member of the advisory board for Diversity in Organizations, Communities, and Nations.
He previously served as chair of the Contract Faculty Personnel Committee in the College of Letters and Sciences (now the College of Integrative Sciences and Arts at ASU, and is a former President of the ASU Retirees Association.
As an addition to his teaching duties over the years, Edmonds has authored and revised a variety of full-length ancillary materials to accompany dozens of popular textbooks published by five of the most respected textbook companies in the world. His new book, "Intersectionality: An Arts-based Approach to Student Awareness" is a treatment more on intersectionality than on the area of arts-based research methodologies. He also has traveled the state of Arizona, in a Chautauquan role, presenting the lives of the late Senator Carl. T Hayden (D-AZ), George W.P Hunt, Barry Goldwater.