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SUMMARY:Data Transformation: Reflective Spirals in Arts-Informed Research 
 on Museum Experience - Yanyue (Selena) Yuan\, Faculty of Education
DTSTART:20131120T130000Z
DTEND:20131120T140000Z
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CONTACT:J. Gilevskaja
DESCRIPTION:My doctoral research explores visitor experiences in museums w
 ith anthropological collections and in particular imaginative responses to
 wards museum masks. I hope to capture the intangibility and multi-dimensio
 nality involved in imaginative thinking by integrating the self-narrative 
 approach and arts-informed inquiry. The challenge\, however\, is that the 
 study does not yield substantive data. What do these data inform and how a
 re they significant? How do they illustrate the embedded inquiry? \nIn qua
 litative research\, ‘data interpretation’ has been used by some schola
 rs to replace ‘data analysis’ in acknowledging the researcher’s hist
 orical and cultural lenses during the meaning making process. In this talk
 \, I want to take a step further by introducing ‘data transformation’ 
 as a concept in treating ‘created’ rather than ‘collected’ data. I
  will discuss ‘reflective spirals’ as a thinking tool to ‘transform
 ’ data\, which is inspired by ‘creative synthesis’ in heuristic rese
 arch.\n
LOCATION:Room 2S5\, Donald McIntyre Building\, Faculty of Education\, 184 
 Hills Road\, Cambridge CB2 8PQ
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