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Arts-Based Research in Education: Becomings from a Doctoral Research Perspective

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What is an appropriate structure for reporting a study exploring the transitory and reciprocal experience of becoming an artist and teacher, following creative constructivist paradigms, and adopting a hybridsed Arts-based, narrative and autoethnographic methodology?

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MacDonald, A., Hunter, M. (2018). Arts-Based Research in Education: Becomings from a Doctoral Research Perspective. In: Kember, D., Corbett, M. (eds) Structuring the Thesis. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-0511-5_25

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