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Arts practice and disconnected youth in Australia: Impact and domains of change

Background: This paper describes research conducted with Big hART, Australia's most awarded participatory arts company. It considers three projects, LUCKY, GOLD and NGAPARTJI NGAPARTJI across separate sites in Tasmania, Western NSW and Northern Territory, respectively, in order to understand pr...

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Autores principales: Wright, Peter, Davies, Christina, Haseman, Brad, Down, Barry, White, Mike, Rankin, Scott
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Taylor & Francis Group 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4259013/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25530802
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17533015.2013.822397
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description Background: This paper describes research conducted with Big hART, Australia's most awarded participatory arts company. It considers three projects, LUCKY, GOLD and NGAPARTJI NGAPARTJI across separate sites in Tasmania, Western NSW and Northern Territory, respectively, in order to understand project impact from the perspective of project participants, Arts workers, community members and funders. Methods: Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 29 respondents. The data were coded thematically and analysed using the constant comparative method of qualitative data analysis. Results: Seven broad domains of change were identified: psychosocial health; community; agency and behavioural change; the Art; economic effect; learning and identity. Conclusions: Experiences of participatory arts are interrelated in an ecology of practice that is iterative, relational, developmental, temporal and contextually bound. This means that questions of impact are contingent, and there is no one path that participants travel or single measure that can adequately capture the richness and diversity of experience. Consequently, it is the productive tensions between the domains of change that are important and the way they are animated through Arts practice that provides sign posts towards the impact of Big hART projects.
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spelling pubmed-42590132014-12-18 Arts practice and disconnected youth in Australia: Impact and domains of change Wright, Peter Davies, Christina Haseman, Brad Down, Barry White, Mike Rankin, Scott Arts Health Original Articles Background: This paper describes research conducted with Big hART, Australia's most awarded participatory arts company. It considers three projects, LUCKY, GOLD and NGAPARTJI NGAPARTJI across separate sites in Tasmania, Western NSW and Northern Territory, respectively, in order to understand project impact from the perspective of project participants, Arts workers, community members and funders. Methods: Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 29 respondents. The data were coded thematically and analysed using the constant comparative method of qualitative data analysis. Results: Seven broad domains of change were identified: psychosocial health; community; agency and behavioural change; the Art; economic effect; learning and identity. Conclusions: Experiences of participatory arts are interrelated in an ecology of practice that is iterative, relational, developmental, temporal and contextually bound. This means that questions of impact are contingent, and there is no one path that participants travel or single measure that can adequately capture the richness and diversity of experience. Consequently, it is the productive tensions between the domains of change that are important and the way they are animated through Arts practice that provides sign posts towards the impact of Big hART projects. Taylor & Francis Group 2013-10-01 2013-08-08 /pmc/articles/PMC4259013/ /pubmed/25530802 http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17533015.2013.822397 Text en © 2013 The Author(s). Published by Taylor & Francis This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. The moral rights of the named author(s) have been asserted.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4259013/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25530802
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