Ardra Cole

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Dr. Ardra Cole is Associate Vice-President (Academic and Research) at Mount Saint Vincent University. Her areas of research and publication include teacher development, research methodologies, arts-informed research, and most recently, aging and health.

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    Arts-informed research
    (Sage Publications, 2008) Cole, Ardra; Knowles, J. Gary
    Excerpt from chapter: "The transformative potential of artsinformed research speaks to the need for researchers to develop representations that address audiences in ways that do not pacify or indulge the senses but arouse them and the intellect to new heights of response and action. In essence, and ideally, the educative possibilities of arts-informed work are foremost in the heart, soul, and mind of the researcher from the onset of an inquiry"
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    Call and response: The importance of "telling truth slant"
    (Learning Landscapes, 2011) Cole, Ardra; Knowles, J. Gary
    Funding agencies are restructuring programs, rewriting priorities, and restating accountability demands all founded on the very basic point that research funded by public tax dollars must be relevant and accountable to diverse publics. This new wave of accountability challenges researchers to “translate” and “mobilize” knowledge so that research is understood by those publics and makes a difference in people’s lives. While goals of research accessibility are laudable, we argue that researchers’ goals need not be focused on finding better ways to translate knowledge for public consumption. Rather, the time has come for inquiry to be more about actively engaging people in meaning making. As a community of researchers with long-standing commitment to using the arts in research as a vehicle for engagement, this is an opportunity for us to provide leadership in this area.
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    Call and response: The importance of “telling truth slant.
    (Learning Landscapes, 2011) Cole, Ardra; Knowles, Gary
    Funding agencies are restructuring programs, rewriting priorities, and restating accountability demands all founded on the very basic point that research funded by public tax dollars must be relevant and accountable to diverse publics. This new wave of accountability challenges researchers to “translate” and “mobilize” knowledge so that research is understood by those publics and makes a difference in people’s lives. While goals of research accessibility are laudable, we argue that researchers’ goals need not be focused on finding better ways to translate knowledge for public consumption. Rather, the time has come for inquiry to be more about actively engaging people in meaning making. As a community of researchers with long-standing commitment to using the arts in research as a vehicle for engagement, this is an opportunity for us to provide leadership in this area.
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    Context Matters: Visual Inquiry and Qualities of Engagement
    (Backalong Books/Centre for Arts-Informed Research, 2007-01-01) Cole, Ardra; McIntyre, Maura
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    Denial of the personal, preservation of the status quo in teacher education
    (Journal of Teaching and Learning, 2003) Cole, Ardra
    This paper presents two stories of learning and teaching. Through the stories, the author explores the relationship between personal history-based learning and teaching practice and advocates a process of reflexive inquiry for teacher learning and teacher education. A major focus is on how a curriculum and pedagogy of reflexive inquiry can transform, deepen and broaden conceptions of teacher education as well as make a difference in how teachers see and express themselves in educational contexts. The author also describes the meanings and implications of a personal history pedagogy for teacher education institutions as well as the contextual changes required for such transformative practices to be adopted.
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    Installation Art-As-Research
    (Sage Publications, 2008) Cole, Ardra; McIntyre, Maura
    Excerpt from chapter: "Join us in a look at installation art as one of the many art forms that has found its way into social science research as a methodological challenge to modernist perspectives on knowledge and knowing. Our chapter is a virtual tour of several research installations including our own. Through our experiential rendering of this art form, we consider how our work and the work of other installation artist-researchers advances knowledge in unique ways, paying particular attention to the qualities of accessibility, inclusion, audience engagement, and sociopolitical commitment. During the journey we explore some issues and challenges peculiar to installation art-as-research. We also make particular reference to the role of installation art as articulated by a number of contemporary artists whose work reflects intentions and “attitude” that echo some of the qualities of installation art-as-research."
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    Living in Paradox: Metaphors of Conflict and Contradiction in the Academy
    (2010) Cole, Ardra
    ABSTRACT The article offers information on the art installations which represent the experiences of teacher educators on the paradox of the academy. It mentions the use of graphic language to construct images or metaphors to represent elements of their experiences and idiosyncratic complexities. Meanwhile, the personal and professional sacrifices of the educators to stay in the academy to make a difference reduce their commitment to their families and result to less salary with little or no job security.
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    Love stories about caregiving and Alzheimer's disease: a performative methodology
    (2008) McIntyre, M; Cole, Ardra
    Love Stories is a spoken-word performance created from data gathered from family caregivers about their experiences of caring for a loved one with Alzheimer's disease. We present the Love Stories script with an accompanying methodological commentary and put forward a framework of 'Loving Research' based on a model of dementia care proposed by the late Tom Kitwood. Kitwood proposed a five-part model of psychological needs of people with dementia centred on the fundamental and universal human yearning for love. Loving care brings to the person with dementia opportunities for attachment, identity, inclusion, occupation and comfort. Loving Research, we argue, brings these same qualities to readers, viewers and research participants.
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    Money Worries: Tackling the Challenges of Funding Arts-Related Research
    (Sage Publications, 2008) Cole, Ardra; Gray, Ross
    Excerpt from Chapter: "No handbook on research methodologies would be complete without at least a nod to money matters. But because the “starving artist” phenomenon is just as apt a description of researchers who variously incorporate the arts into their work, we did not see ourselves writing a guide to successful procurement of pots of money; nor did we imagine writing an issues-based essay on the “whys,” “wherefores,” and “whethers” of seeking funding for alternative genre research.1 Rather, we were more interested in getting a sense of the overall funding picture in the small but growing international community of artist-researchers."