Wednesday, January 26, 2011

Doctoral student Lesley University Identifies Empathy as Important Theme in Creative Arts in Interdiscisplinary Practice Book

As part of our special series at this blog about our readers and the research book, "Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice, Inquiries for Hope and Change," in our last post we featured Senior Lecturer in Adult Nursing, Sue Spencer RN from Northumbria University UK. Today, we bring you comments from Pete Cormier, a doctoral student in Educational Studies at Lesley University, Cambridge, Massachusettes who is researching the engagement practices of performance art as pedagogy for community service. He is also managing director of the Cornerstone Performing Arts Centre in Fitchburg Massachusettes, an organization which provides training and performance opportunities to the region's marginalized youth. (see website and excerpt film premier "Fresh Water")

Pete Cormier reports the book, "Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice, Inquiries for Hope and Change" has a broad, cross disciplinary appeal and identifies empathy as an important thematic thread running through the text.

"This book is filled with research, narratives and ideas for the student, scholar, community art-maker and anyone interested in using the arts to connect with and engage the marginalized in our communities. In Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice, Inquiries for Hope and Change, editor Cheryl McLean enlists a talented and passionate group of researchers and practitioners to share their experiences using various art forms to change lives and skillfully weaves a tapestry of empathic and innovative practices that provide a series of effective real-world strategies for engaging marginalized populations who are facing daunting social issues. Empathy is clearly the thread running through the text which connects the stories and experiences of the practitioners, patients and researchers described in these pages. " P. Cormier, MS, Non Profit Management, Worcester State University, BA, Sociology, The University of Notre Dame)

In creating the book "Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice, Inquiries for Hope and Change" it was our intention to show, by way of illustrative examples, the considerable breadth and scope of the research. First hand topical accounts are featured from leading artist/researchers, academics, health researchers, nurse educators, physicians, envirommentalists and others who actively use the creative arts in interdisciplinary practice in cutting edge research and in methodologies for health, hope and change.



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Sunday, January 16, 2011

No Wall Too High for RN Educator Working Across Borders in Arts and Health






Article by Cheryl McLean, Publisher International Journal for the Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice IJCAIP,


In an emerging field that finds itself working for change between and across disciplinary borders, the picture we received from registered nurse and educator Sue Spencer taken on a cold January day as she sat on the rocks near Hadrian's Wall holding a copy of the book "Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice, Inquiries for Hope and Change" seems fitting. The ancient military fortification was originally constructed to keep the barbarians from nearby countries and invading forces at bay and is still one of the most popular tourist attractions in Northern England, where to most it is known simply as The Wall.

Sue Spencer RN is currently a Senior Lecturer in Adult Nursing at Northumbria University UK. Sue has been shaped not so much by The Wall itself, but rather by the borderlands, the liminal spaces "in between". It is here where she finds inspiration to encourage and challenge her students to creatively express their feelings about new placements in palliative care settings.

"We live on the border of two counties and the spaces in between are always my inspiration," says Spencer. "Hadrian's Wall and the borderlands continue to be a stimulus for writers and visual artists and I am drawn back to this borderland over and over again. I am starting a project with hospice staff around the use of story in their work and how they can "make" poems with patients and families. Last week I ran a workshop with Occupational Therapy students inviting them to explore the role poetry might have in palliative care and yesterday I ran a seminar with first year student nurses encouraging them to write haiku poetry about a challenging or difficult experience on their first placement. I continue to champion the service user viewpoint in health care particularly those living with long term and life-limiting conditions."

Sue Spencer has found the narrative section of the book "Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary practice, Inquiries for Hope and Change" helpful in her work, particularly the stories by contributor Susan MacRae RN, formerly the Deputy Director of The Toronto Joint Centre for Bioethics, who has used narrative methods in health education for students beginning clinical practice.

"I am particularly drawn to the (narrative) work of Susan MacRae, "To be Human with Other Humans, A Caregiver's Story" (pg. 287) 2. I have found myself teaching ethics and nursing in Newcastle and my starting point is from the humanities perspective as ultimately many of the reasons I ended up interested in creative work in healthcare was from a moral viewpoint."

It is always inspiring for me to receive news from our readers and to learn how each, a champion in her or his own right, is bringing novel approaches to traditional disciplines while advancing the creative arts in education and practice well beyond borders. As an educator working for change who is drawn to the borderlands between the creative arts and health it seems there is no wall too high for Sue Spencer as she introduces her work and the book "Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice, Inquiries for Hope and Change " to her students in healthcare education at Northumbria University.



1. Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice, Inquiries for Hope and Change, Editor Cheryl McLean, Associate Editor Robert Kelly, "To be Human with Other Humans, A Caregiver's Narrative", Susan K. MacRae (Pg. 289), Detselig Temeron Press, Calgary (August 2010)



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Saturday, January 15, 2011

Upcoming IJCAIP Issue Features Book Contributors

In the upcoming issue of IJCAIP, The International Journal of the Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice, Issue 9, February 2010, “Expressing the Human Story” we are featuring two full text papers, the first by IJCAIP Advisory Board member, Johnny Saldana, Professor of Theatre, School of Theatre and Film, Arizona State University, “Ethnodramas About Health and Illness, Staging Human Vulnerability, Fragility and Resiliency”, a descriptive selective literature review of thirty-eight ethnodramatic play scripts about health and illness. The second full text article featured will be contributed by Susan K. MacRae, former Deputy Director of the University of Toronto Joint Centre for Bioethics, “To Be Human with Other Humans, A Caregiver’s Narrative” which illustrates how qualitative approaches and expressing the human story through written accounts and narrative can be transformative and healing for the caregiver. Both papers were originally published in the research book “Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice, Inquiries for Hope and Change”. An IJCAIP project, this book is the first book in the CAIP Research Series and was published by Detselig Temeron Press, Calgary, (Editor, Cheryl McLean and Associate Editor, and IJCAIP Advisory Board member, Robert Kelly, University of Calgary). The contemporary research text introduces an emerging and rapidly growing field with a dynamic collection of illustrative articles contributed by leaders across many disciplines who use the creative arts in research and practice, among them leading academics and highly respected adult educators, artist/researchers, playwrights, directors and dancers, nurse educators, physicians, dietitians, social work educators, and environmental activists.
This book "Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice, Inquiries for Hope and Change" was released August 2010.

About the book

Table of Contents

Overview of content, contributors

NEW! Read chapter quotes from contributors


Editors

Wednesday, January 12, 2011

Chapter Quotes from Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice, Inquiries for Hope and Change Book

Chapter quotes from the book……

Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice, Inquiries for Hope and Change

“ In this book we bring together a field that stresses the vital importance of creativity and the human story, a body of work that seeks to help give voice to the silenced, the oppressed and the marginalized, and narrative accounts of personal transformation that honour creative expression as fundamental and at the very source of human meaning and purpose.”

From the book introduction, “Shaping the Field”

Cheryl McLean

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“The collaborative “Homelessness Solutions from Lived Experiences through Arts-Informed Research” illustrates a particular case in which arts can be brought together in various ways to raise awareness and promote social change…The use of arts was particularly effective because it allowed for the meaningful inclusion of people who are homeless in the research process as peer researchers and the artwork created by those who have experienced homelessness first hand.”

Collaborating to Tell the Stories of Homelessness in Toronto

Isumi Sakamoto, Matthew Chin, Cyndy Baskin

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As an artist researcher working in communities I use the arts as form, method, analysis and more as the art/inquiry itself moves us toward social justice and equity: new forms of relatedness. My work does its best to be participatory and community based, but there are practical and economic considerations that need to enter the conversations….I also understand that the best conditions for this work are not always in place and so must engage where we are invited, working with the limits of the contingencies of each project. Finally, I must admit the importance of using art as process and product in communities, and how staying with arts practices, staying in the metaphors as they emerge, reveals significant personal and community shifts.”

The Voice of the Artist as Researcher, Homelessness in Toronto

Nancy Viva Davis Halifax

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Ultimately, Community Environmental Forum Theatre proves most valuable to science as a bridge process: each project increases scientific literacy within a given community and builds capacity for informed citizens and community based organizations to collaborate on increasingly more complex public health research.”

Engaging Neighbors, Transforming Toxic Realities

John Sullivan

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Photovoice is a creative arts medium which has great potential as an intervention for health promotion and disease prevention. Our experience using a photovoice-based intervention with Latino mothers and daughters demonstrates how broadly the arts can be used to intervene on and advocate for the health and well being of individuals, families and communities.”

Our Voice through Pictures Mother and Daughter

Carolyn Garcia, Sandi Lindgren

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“Empowerment suggests that marginalized communities help to create a space for alternative voices to be heard. That is to say, through engagement in the social construction of the community’s notion of what it means to be healthy, boundaries are crossed, difference is celebrated and cultural empowerment becomes the source of citizen participation. Community participation became the translational bridge for co-creating meaning of the event into positive action of many attendees.”

Health Disparities in Our Community: Reflections in Art and Performance A Community Based Participatory Approach with Arts as a Translational Bridge to Knowledge

Olga Idriss Davis

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“I returned to dance, intuitively, instinctively. The dance of death was now my dance of life. As I danced, like a woman possessed, my conscious mind snuffed out the reality of my loss. While my world as wife and mother had been cruelly wrenched from me, I came to understand that my identity as a dancer had survived, an identity that no outside force could destroy. As I willed movement into my paralyzed arms and legs; step by step, gesture by gesture, my still body came to life.”

Revealed by Fire, A Woman’s Personal Story of Grief, Dance and Transformation

Lata Pada

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“Ethnodramatic representations and presentations of health and illness bring participants’ vulnerability, fragility, and, in most cases, resiliency to heightened prominence. Perhaps more than the academic journal article, the ethnotheatrical performance, if well done for a receptive audience, holds potential to increase awareness, deepen understanding and provide experiences that generate sympathetic and empathetic responses and memories for future application and transfer into clinical practice and possibly healthy care policy.”

Ethnodramas about Health and Illness: Staging Human Vulnerability, Fragility and Resiliency

Johnny Saldana

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Throughout our work, the concept of “empathy” and the practical realization of empathic encounters in performance have proved central to our development of reflective based practice. …We all have a “thinking body” which takes into account the coupling of emotional visceral responses found in empathy. In the area of dance, the term empathy is often used in tandem with the word kinaesthetic to place emphasis on the corporeal. ..Empathy has gained momentum as a concern in performance practice today because of the need to understand one’s own being in relationship to the being of another.”

Performance Based Approaches and Moving Toward Kinaesthetic Understandings

April Nunes Tucker, Amanda Price

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“In order to address the complex challenges now facing our world, the ability for intentional deep listening becomes critical. Arts-based practice can contribute to intentional deep listening as it assists individuals in the development of creative capacity.”

Mining the Depths: Performing Stories of Home and Homelessness

Ian Prinsloo, Jessie Negropontes, Sarada Eastham, Christine Walsh, Gayle Rutherford

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“Through participating in community based media creation novice directors and photographers strengthen their ability to advocate on their own behalf. ..while becoming a director, marginalized individuals learn to actively express themselves in the process of creating new media works, regardless of the commercial potential of the work. In the process of training a novice director, the artist/researcher makes the connection between self-expression and self-determination explicit allowing the novice to apply artistic knowledge to their social relationships.”

Community Media Arts, Encouraging Citizenship through Creative Self Expression

Lorna R. Boschman

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“Psychological and psychosocial interventions including music therapy play their part by assisting clients in rebuilding social, emotional, education, recreational and vocational skills and can lead to enhanced social functioning and quality of life. In recent years, there has been an increase in evidence based research and literature promoting the effectiveness of music therapy in the treatment of schizophrenia and like illnesses.

Rapping from the Inside Out, Music therapy and Rap Music

Anthony DiGiacomo

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“Making theatre has the potential to shift identities, create relationships and build communities. ..Making theatre is not only a construction of a story, it is the construction of a new reality…Theatre, at its best, is social dreaming, on the stage, behind the scenes, in the audience and outside the theatre walls.”

Community, Hope and transformation for a Hard of Hearing Student

Theresa Webber, George Belliveau, Graham Lea

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“When I started the narrative ethics group at The University of Toronto’s Joint Centre for Bioethics, I began to understand that such narrative practice allowed a more robust and deeper human inquiry to emerge beneath the layers of intellectual dialogue about ethical issues in healthcare. The layers of reality that a narrative exploration uncovered added significantly, in my opinion, to the intellectual discussions we were having as clinical ethicists on notions of right and wrong.”

To be Human with Other Humans , a Caregiver’s Narrative

Susan K. MacRae

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“ This project enlisted dietitians in an experiential, narrative inquiry through use of a Resiliency Map. Three themes emerged: disconnection, workplace conflict and relational resiliency which were further informed by gender, emotionality and burnout. “

Mapping Resiliency: Building Bridges Toward the Future, An Experiential Arts-based Narrative Inquiry with Dietetics Professionals

Jacqui Gingras, Jennifer Atkins

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“Creative leadership demands creative problem solving and there are many areas..in which arts based learning can assist leaders in developing innovative solutions…Management programs in higher education are looking toward the arts to cultivate the leadership skills and attributes necessary to succeed in the current marketplace. The application of the arts in management education encompasses cross sector leadership skills that include collaboration, team building, communications, innovation and creativity; with the intent of strengthening these skills through arts based learning.”

Creating A Place for the Arts in Healthcare Management Education

Sherry Fontaine

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“I believe my personal experience with illness drastically changed the way I practiced medicine in many ways. It led me to practice with more empathy and greater understanding of the importance of active listening, validating experience, and involving patients in decision making among other things.”

Honouring the Patient’s Voice in Health Professional Education

Seema Shah

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“ students eagerly began the process of creating their own digital stories as representations of patient narratives. They recognized early on that process was just as important as form and function. Their goal was not simply to reproduce what they had heard, but to communicate the rich multidimensional experience they witnessed. What came forth was their own unrealized artistic talent and originality, an appreciation for the challenges that go into writing and rewriting the narrative and the sense of sheer joy in creating a lasting communication product.”

Digital Stories and Experiential Learning, Teaching Medical Students about Patients as Educators

Kim a. Bullock, Kathleen McNamara, Donna Cameron

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“ The shoreline of Newfoundland is where I return, in body whenever I can, or at other times at least in spirit, to reflect, to write my life—its present, its past and its future. My mother’s body gave me life, remembered my past, and could foretell my future.”

My mother’s body, A story of grieving, remembering and touch

John J. Guiney Yallop

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“As daughters of women who lived with and died with Alzheimer’s disease, we remember and use the practical and emotional realities that were our own experience of caregiving to guide our work. Rooted as we are in the everyday routines of caregiving, we found ourselves drawn to three dimensional installation art with its assemblage quality of found materials. Using the “everyday” and “ordinary” as guides we chose universal, domestic symbols and forms in order to keep “the academy and the kitchen table” together and make our work broadly accessible.

Paying Tribute to Caregivers through Arts informed Research as a Path to Hope and Change

Ardra Cole and Maura McIntyre

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“At the center of this inquiry into ethics, aesthetics, the power of public mourning and connection to place, is a series of questions about home’s properties, associations, and manifestations (or lack there of) in the political, cultural, emotional and embodied realms. How do the stories we tell about home influence our experiences of home? Once displaced, what are the conditions necessary for making home anew?”

Performing Beauty, Practicing Home

Collaborative Live Art and the Transformation of Displacement

Devora Neumark


Thursday, January 6, 2011

Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice Book Featuring Leading Edged Research and Art that Matters

The inaugural book in the CAIP, Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice, research series, "Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice, Inquiries for Hope and Change" Published by Detselig Enterprises, Calgary, editor Cheryl McLean, Publisher of The International Journal of The Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice, associate editor, Robert Kelly, Associate Professor, Fine Art, University of Calgary, is a project of IJCAIP, The International Journal of The Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice. The groundbreaking book introduces an emerging and rapidly growing field with a dynamic collection of illustrative articles featuring artists, leading academics, health researchers, nurse educators, physicians, educators, environmentalists and others who actively use the creative arts in interdisciplinary practice in cutting edged research and in methodologies for health, hope and change. Readers will learn how the creative arts can offer unique opportunities to embody and re-illuminate the human story, stage human vulnerability, foster citizenship and give voice to narratives of human experience.
At over 400 pages, this is a rich and multifaceted collection of articles and chapters about the creative arts in health and interdisciplinary practice, an accessible yet highly informative text that enlightens the reader about the inquiries and the processes while offering first hand insights into approaches, stories of the work in practice, how to method based exercises and lists of comprehensive references.


"Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice, Inquiries for Hope and Change" is a contemporary research collection that features methods that are participative, communal, active and experiential. It speaks of approaches that actively re-illuminate lived experiences and foster and encourage deep and multi-sensory communication and embodied forms of expression with elements visual, emotional, physical and spiritual. In this book, we bring together a field that stresses the vital importance of creativity and the human story, a body of work that seeks to help give voice to the silenced, the oppressed and the marginalized, narrative accounts of personal transformation that honour creative expression as fundamental and at the very source of human meaning and purpose. We invite you to journey through these articles and share in accounts of the creative arts in interdisciplinary practice for hope and change" Editor, Cheryl McLean, Publisher IJCAIP Journal.







About the book



Table of Contents

Editors



Inside news contributors


Here are just few of our contributors;

Izumi Sakamoto Ph.D., Associate Professor of Social Work, University of Toronto

Nancy Viva Davis Halifax, Ph.D., artist/researcher and Assistant professor, Critical Disability Studies, York University

John Sullivan, Adjunct Faculty, Department of Preventive medicine and Community Health, Public forum and Toxics Assistance, University of Texas Medical Branch

Family Social Sciences, University of Manitoba

Carolyn Garcia, PhD, MPH, RN, Assistant professor, University of Minnesota School of Nursing

Olga Idriss Davis, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Hugh Downs School of Human Communication, Arizona State University

Lata Pada, choreographer, Adjunct Professor, York University, Dance (Order of Canada recipient)

Johnny Saldana, playwright/actor, Professor of Theatre, School of Theatre and Film, Arizona State University

Ian Prinsloo MFA, (former AD, Theatre Calgary)

Lorna Boschman, Documentary and Media Artist, PhD (in process) Simon Fraser

George Belliveau, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Faculty of Education, University of British Columbia

Susan K. MacRae, Registered Nurse, (former Deputy Director, University of Toronto, Joint Centre for Bioethics)

Jacqui Gingras PhD, RD, Assistant Professor, School of Nutrition, Ryerson University

Sherry Fontaine Ph.D., Associate Professor and Director of Healthcare Leadership, Park University

Seema Shah MD, MSPH

Kim Bullock, MD, Director of Community Health Division, Providence Hospital Family Medicine Residency Program

John J. Guiney Yallop Ph.D., Assistant Professor, School of Education , Acadia University

Ardra Cole, EdD, Professor and Co-director, Centre for Arts informed Research, OISE, University of Toronto

Devora Neumark, Interdisciplinary artist, Faculty member MFA Interdisciplinary Art, Goddard College, Vermont

Maura McIntyre Ed.D, Adjunct Professor, OISE, Centre for Arts informed Research, University of Toronto

Looking Back and Moving Forward, A Retrospective Look at The International Journal of The Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice IJCAIP


Editorial

“Our mission is to publish, disseminate and make accessible worldwide, quality information,research and knowledge about the creative arts in research and interdisciplinary practice.”

September 2006


As our February IJCAIP Issue 9, "Expressing the Human Story", is expected to be released in the next few weeks it might be an opportune time to reflect on the story and history of The International Journal of The Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice IJCAIP and how we have progressed toward our goals over the last five years.


The seeds for IJCAIP were planted in the spring of 2006. At that time we had envisioned a global community linked around the creative arts and its broader applications in research and practice, a network that would extend beyond any single modality, methodology or exclusive field of study drawn from across disciplinary borders in health, education and training.


To achieve this goal, and to provide the necessary communication channels for research and information, individuals were identified and organizations interested in arts in health, training and education were contacted personally to ask if they might like to access a web based newsletter that featured articles about the creative arts as applied across disciplines. The response to this inquiry was overwhelmingly positive. The Canadian Creative Arts in Health Training and Education e/newsjournal or CCAHTE as it was known, was launched in September 2006 as an open access (OA) internet news/journal, the interdisciplinary journal of the creative arts in health, training and education.


An advisory board was established with representation from leading universities and institutions across North America and diverse disciplines in education, the arts and healthcare (nursing, public health, medicine) fine arts, design and business. As an Open Access journal, we operated CCAHTE on a free subscription basis and welcomed articles from contributors worldwide.

Three years later, in consultation with the journal advisory board and to reflect the publication's broadening scope and international status as the open access peer reviewed academic journal in the field, the journal was renamed The International Journal of The Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice, IJCAIP.


Today IJCAIP has an Advisory Board made up of leaders across disciplines and has a large international subscriber base. The web based open access publication is accessible to researchers, educators and students in over 15,000 libraries in 60 countries around the world including developing nations.

IJCAIP Advisory Board

George Belliveau, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Faculty of Education, University of British Columbia

Subrata Sankar Bagchi, Ph.D., Visiting Professor, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, University of Ottawa

Lace Marie Brogden, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Faculty of Education, University of Regina

Michael Hutcheon MD, FRCP, Deputy Physician and Chief of Education, Toronto University Health Network

Robert W. Kelly Ph.D., Associate Professor, Faculty of Fine Art, University of Calgary

Pia C. Kontos Ph.D., Research Scientist, Toronto Rehabilitation Institute, Assistant Professor, Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Toronto

Patricia McKeever Ph.D., Health Sociologist, Senior Scientist, Bloorview Research Institute, Professor, Faculty of Nursing, University of Toronto

Nick Nissley, Ed.D., Dean of Business, Cincinnati State, formerly Director Leadership Development, Banff Centre for the Arts

Lubomir Popov Ph.D., Associate Professor of Family and Consumer Sciences, Interior Design, Bowling Green State University, Ohio

Johnny Saldana MFA, Professor of Theatre, Herberger College of the Arts, Arizona State University

Publishing activities at IJCAIP have contributed significantly to propagating a new and fertile knowledge base for research and information about the creative arts in interdisciplinary practice. The open access free subscription publication sponsors a number of interconnected IJCAIP websites and blogs as well as a monthly subscriber newsletter. In August 2010, IJCAIP with Editor, Cheryl L. McLean (Publisher and Executive Editor, IJCAIP) and IJCAIP Advisory Board member and Associate Editor, Robert Kelly, University of Calgary , published the book, “Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice, Inquiries for Hope and Change”, Detselig Temeron Press, Calgary, the first text in the CAIP Research Series. This contemporary research text introduces an emerging and rapidly growing field with a dynamic collection of illustrative articles contributed by leaders across many disciplines who use the creative arts in research and practice, among them leading academics and highly respected adult educators, artist/researchers, playwrights, directors and dancers, nurse educators, physicians, dietitians, social work educators, and environmental activists.

The second text in the CAIP Research Series,“Creative Arts in Research for Community and Cultural Change is scheduled for release in 2011. This book takes a global perspective featuring research and projects that have used the creative arts in varied forms for community and cultural change. The timely and critical role of the creative arts in action in many forms for social change is discussed and illustrative research articles address topics such as immigration and identity, racism, aboriginal health and institutional life, mental health, disability and other vital community issues such as access to clean water and raising environmental consciousness.

It has been our intention to illustrate the considerable breadth and scope of this field while featuring leaders active in the work in action and practice. We have worked to forge relationships and build collaborative interdisciplinary networks and pool expertise and resources from many diverse fields. Our IJCAIP Advisory Board, representing leaders across disciplines, has been vital to our success and professionalism as a peer reviewed journal and members have generously shared their expertise and scholarly advice to help us advance toward our goals. Our organization continues to foster and encourage research in the creative arts in interdisciplinary practice as well as carry the message across disciplines publishing articles in international publications, presenting at national conferences, and on conference panels sharing news about the many applications of the creative arts in research and practice. In the last five years, IJCAIP and our related sites and resources have provided open access to a much needed communication hub for research and knowledge in the field. We embraced the philosophy of information sharing and open access at an unprecedented time of change and opportunity in academic publishing. As an Open Access OA journal we continue to offer worldwide access to our web based publication, archives and related blogs without fees or membership charges. We have recently created additional opportunities for research and knowledge dissemination for those who wish to share related news and research developments with our worldwide readership through custom developed supplementary issues through our IJCAIP Supplementary Issues Programme.

With the recent release of the first book in the CAIP Research Series, “Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice, Inquiries for Hope and Change” and the scheduled release of our second book in the CAIP Research Series, “Creative Research for Community and Cultural Change” we enter the New Year with a sense of great pride and optimism for the future.

Our mission when we launched our journal in 2006 was to publish, disseminate and make accessible worldwide, quality information, research and knowledge about the creative arts in research and interdisciplinary practice. We have helped contribute to a field of study that stresses the vital importance of creativity and the arts in research and practice, added new research to a growing body of knowledge that seeks to give voice to the silenced, the oppressed and the marginalized, offered a place to express the human story and provided new opportunities to share those deeply personal accounts with a world in desperate need of truth and authenticity. We have demonstrated that in these challenging and changing times the arts have a fundamental role to play in creating communities that care for their citizens. We invite you to join us and support IJCAIP and our ongoing efforts to raise awareness about the creative arts in research and interdisciplinary practice. Visit our website at http://www.ijcaip.com and share in our issues and archives where you will witness the creative arts in research and action for hope and change. Invite your friends to subscribe, without charge, to IJCAIP Journal with an email to CherylMcLean@ijcaip.com “please subscribe" in subject line. Visit our blogs. Learn more about our books and introduce The Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice CAIP Series to your students. Pass along the good word and share the news with colleagues.

It has been an exciting five years. Best wishes for 2011,

The journey continues.



C. L. McLean, Publisher, Executive Editor, The International Journal of The Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice, IJCAIP

CherylMcLean@ijcaip.com

IJCAIP website:

http://www.ijcaip.com

IJCAIP BLOG http://www.ccahtecrossingborders.blogspot.com

CAIP Research Series BLOGS:

http://www.creativeartpractice.blogspot.com

http://creativecommunitychange.blogspot.com/

Saturday, January 1, 2011

Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice Book Contributors and Table of Contents


The book "Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice, Inquiries for Hope and Change" Editor Cheryl L. McLean, Publisher International Journal of The Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice IJCAIP, Associate Editor, Robert Kelly Ph.D., Faculty of Fine Art, University of Calgary published by Detselig Temeron Press features first hand topical accounts about the creative arts in research and practice. Leading academics, health researchers, nurse educators, physicians, social workers, educators. environmentalists, ar
tists and others candidly share their experiences with the creative arts in research while voicing the stories of the work in practice. At over 400 pages, and featuring over 40 contributors, this is a varied and multifaceted collection of creative research in action, an accessible yet highly informative book that enlightens the reader about the inquiries and methodologies while demonstrating how the creative arts can uniquely cross disciplines in search of solutions while creating new communities for change in the process.





Among the contributors to the book "Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice, Inquiries for Hope and Change"


Izumi Sakamoto Ph.D., Associate Professor of Social Work, University of Toronto

Nancy Viva Davis Halifax, Ph.D., artist/researcher and Assistant professor, Critical Disability Studies, York University

John Sullivan, Adjunct Faculty, Department of Preventive medicine and Community Health, Public forum and Toxics Assistance, University of Texas Medical Branch

Family Social Sciences, University of Manitoba

Carolyn Garcia, PhD, MPH, RN, Assistant Professor, University of Minnesota School of Nursing

Olga Idriss Davis, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Hugh Downs School of Human Communication, Arizona State University

Lata Pada, Choreographer, Adjunct Professor, York University, Dance (Order of Canada recipient)

Johnny Saldana, Playwright/actor, Professor of Theatre, School of Theatre and Film, Arizona State University

Ian Prinsloo MFA, (former AD, Theatre Calgary)

Lorna Boschman, Documentary and Media Artist, PhD (in process) Simon Fraser

George Belliveau, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Faculty of Education, University of British Columbia

Susan K. MacRae, Registered Nurse, (former Deputy Director, University of Toronto, Joint Centre for Bioethics)

Jacqui Gingras PhD, RD, Assistant Professor, School of Nutrition, Ryerson University

Sherry Fontaine Ph.D., Associate Professor and Director of Healthcare Leadership, Park University

Seema Shah MD, MSPH

Kim Bullock, MD, Director of Community Health Division, Providence Hospital Family Medicine Residency Program

John J. Guiney Yallop Ph.D., Assistant Professor, School of Education , Acadia University

Ardra Cole, EdD, Professor and Co-director, Centre for Arts informed Research, OISE, University of Toronto

Devora Neumark, Interdisciplinary artist, Faculty member MFA Interdisciplinary Art, Goddard College, Vermont

Maura McIntyre Ed.D, Adjunct Professor, OISE, Centre for Arts informed Research, University of Toronto




Table of Contents

Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice, Inquiries for Hope and Change



PART 1

Creative Arts in Research and Action for Community Change

Community Based Research, Collaborating for Change
Collaborating to Tell the Stories of Homelessness in Toronto
Izumi Sakamoto, Matthew Chin, Cyndy Baskin

The Voice of the Artist Researcher, Homelessness in Toronto
Writing Toward Homelessness, An Artist/Researcher's Reflections
Nancy Viva Davis Halifax

Engaging Neighbours, Transforming Toxic Realities
Community Environmental Forum Theatre to Promote Environmental Justice
John Sullivan

From the field, Photography and Theatre in HIV Research
Javier Mignone, Carla Pindera, Jennifer Davis, Paula Migliardi, Carol D.H. Harvey

Our Voice through Pictures, Mother and Daughter
The Story of a Community based Latina Mother and Daughter Photovoice Intervention
Carolyn Garcia, Sandi Lindgren

Cultural Art and Performance in Communicating
and Addressing Health Disparities in Our Community
A Community Based Participatory Approach with Arts as a translational Bridge to Knowledge
Olga Idriss Davis

PART 2

Performance in Health, Embodied Understandings

Revealed by Fire
A Story of Grief, Dance and Transformation
Lata Pada

Dramatizing the Data, Ethnodramas about Health and Illness
Staging Human Vulnerabiility, Fragility and Resiliency
Johnny Saldana

Moving Toward Kinaesthetic Understandings of Illness in Healthcare
April Nunes Tucker, Amanda Price

Mining the Depths: Performing Stories of Home and Homelessness,
Creating the Space for Deep Listening and Understanding
Ian Prinsloo, Jessie Negropontes, Sarada Eastham, Christine Walsh, Gayle Rutherford

PART 3

Creative Arts in Action and Practice Special Populations
Self Expression, Identity, Community


Encouraging Citizenship for Individuals with Developmental Disabilities
Creative Self-Exprssion and Community Media Arts
Lorna R. Boschman

"Rapping from the Inside Out", Music therapy and "Rap" for Self Expression with an Individual Diagnosed with Schizophrenia: A Case Study
Anthony DiGiacomo

From the Field, Music and Songwriting for Closure at End-of Life
Amy Clements-Cortes

Community, Hope and Transformation for a Hard of Hearing Student
Theresa Webber, George Belliveau, Graham W. Lea


PART 4

Narrative and Story

To be Human with other Humans,
A Caregiver's Narrative
Susan K. MacRae

From the Field, Creative New Directions in Dietetics Research and Education,
A voice for Change
Catherine Morley

Mapping Resiliency: Building Bridges Toward the Future in Dietetics,
An Experiential Arts Based Narrative Inquiry
Jacqui Gingras, Jennifer Atkins

From the Field,
The Convergence of Expressive Art and Community Based Cancer Education
Melany Cueva

Creating a Place for the Arts in Healthcare Management Education
Sherry Fontaine

Narrative and Honouring the Patient's Voice in Health Professional Education
Seema Shah

From the Field, Digital Storytelling in the Social Work Classroom
Christine Walsh

Digital Stories and Experiential Learning,
Teaching Medical Students about Patients as Educators
Kim A. Bullock, Kathleen McNamara, Donna Cameron

From the Field, Sharing the Voices of our Elders through Digital Story
Patti Fraser

My Mother's Body: An Autoethnographical Story
A Story of Grieving, Remembering and Touch
John J. Guiiney Yallop

Paying Tribute to Caregivers through Arts Informed Research
Arts Informed Research as a Path to Hope and Change
Ardra Cole, Maura McIntyre


PART 5

Interdisciplinary Art Practice for Personal and Community Healing
Collaborative Live Art and the Transformation of Displacement
Devora Neumark