Making Connections in and Through Arts-Based Educational Research

"The Making Connections editors – Hala Mreiwed, Mindy R. Carter, Sara Hashem, and Candace H. Blake-Amarante – have curated a work that highlights the authors’ pivots and the potential of ABER to repair and respair through establishing and sustaining: CONNECTIONS. Whether through the pandemic(s), social engagement, stories, personal experiences, or pedagogical expansion, each of the 20 chapters celebrates and solidifies global connections with authors from/working in Australia, Canada, Czech Republic, New Zealand, Norway, South Africa, Spain, United Kingdom, United States, and Vietnam. Representation of such a diverse group of scholars practicing arts-based and arts-based educational inquiry suggests the COVID-19 popularized phrase, “We’re all in this together”, is more than a phrase signaling us to navigate the pandemic(s) with a sense of protection and care for one another. To be in this together, as noted by this text, is to understand our global connection as humans and as artists." Q. M. Cutts, Ph.D.