The Art and Science of Embodied Research Design: Concepts, Methods and Cases

ISBN-13: 9781138367081 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 248 str.

Jennifer Frank Tantia

Opis

This edited volume brings together experienced scholars who conduct and teach embodied research to and establish effective strategies for exploring experience through nonverbal communication, subjective sensory and proprioceptive states, and body-centered imagery.

Spis treści

Part I: Concepts in Embodied Research  Chapter 1: Embodied Research Design: A Transformational Paradigm in Scientific Discovery  Chapter 2: Open and Reflective Research: Methodological Reflections on the Importance of Body Awareness in Qualitative Research  Chapter 3: The Concept Of "Felt Sense" In Embodied Knowing and Action  Chapter 4: Embodied Data: Toward a Vocabulary for Somatic and Movement Experience  Chapter 5: Ethical Considerations in Embodied Research;  Part II: Methods and Cases;  Somatic Systems of Analysis  Chapter 6: Methods for Measuring Embodiment, An Instrument: The Multidimensional Assessment of Interoceptive Awareness (MAIA)  Chapter 7: Empirical Evidence of the Embodiment Awareness Changes in Somatic Focused Gestalt Psychotherapy  Chapter 8: Somatic Phenomenology: Maps of Body-Felt Experience;  Movement Systems of Analysis  Chapter 9: The Three Pillars of Movement Observation and Analysis – A Brief Introduction to the LMA, KMP and MPI  Chapter 10: Embodied and Nonverbal Indices of Stress in Intergenerational Transmission  Chapter 11: The Skillful Analyst: Investigating, Analyzing, And Reflecting on Movement Behavior Through Embodied Knowledge;  Embodied Interviews and Observations  Chapter 12: Ethnomethdologically Informed Ethnography: Recognising the Potential and Limitations of The Researcher’s Body as Tool for Exploring Embodied Practice  Chapter 13: Beyond Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis: Using Body Awareness and Mindfulness Meditation Practices to Research Body Psychotherapy  Chapter 14: The Body-Focused Interview: Explicating the Implicit in Embodied Research  Chapter 15: Embodied Writing Research Applications: Giving the Body "Voice" Through the Vehicle of Words;  Creative and Mixed Methods  Chapter 16: Body Stories: Researching and Performing the Embodied Experience of Oppression  Chapter 17: The Somatic Impact of War and Flight on the Agent Bodies of Refugee Women in Germany: A Mixed-Method Approach Including Movement and Body Image Sculptures  Chapter 18: Aesthetic Answering: A Method of Embodied Analysis and Arts-Based Research in Creative Arts Therapies  Chapter 19: Mixed Methods for Evaluating Embodied Processes in Higher Education

O autorze

Jennifer Frank Tantia, PhD, is a somatic psychologist and dance/movement therapist in New York City, USA. She has taught embodied research at several universities in the United States, and guest lectures internationally.