There is a lack of research in the area of art education that studies expressive art activities with in the art curricula that could serve as an outlet for students to express their problems and emotions. With this, we need to study and collect evidence on what expressive art activities are most beneficial to improving a student’s overall emotional wellbeing. We need to prove with our studies that these art activities would be beneficial in our schools and work diligently to get them integrated into the art curricula as soon as possible. We also need to research what types of trainings/classes would aid teachers in implementing these art activities into their classrooms effectively and properly. I plan on using qualitative research for this study because most of my data will come from interviews, journals, observations, and artworks, which you can’t really put numbers to like quantitative data uses.
Stokrocki, M. (1997). Qualitative forms of research methods. In S. D. La Pierre, & E. Zimmerman (Eds.). Research methods and methodologies for art education (pp. 33-56). Reston, VA: NAEA.
This is a very unique study! I am interested in the questions that will be asked in order to judge the student's emotional well-being. I know from experience, that I can sense how a student's emotional well-being is most of the time - but that must be difficult to measure in research! These findings will hopefully result in some powerful conclusions.
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