The paper seeks to unpick and examine a number of related claims for the role of the arts or, more specifically, the creative arts, in educational research. It considers and evaluates ways in which artistic creativity might itself be thought of as either based on research or itself a form of inquiry which might claim to be research. Such claims are entirely plausible, though they perhaps force artistic creativity into a particular mould that not all artists would appreciate. Artistic work may also constitute data conveying information about a particular setting or the events from which they were produced, signs and symbols for the observer or researcher to interpret. The claim that art might be used to represent educational practice, policy or experience receives the fullest treatment, and this requires consideration of both the general claim (which runs counter to the ambitions of many artists, choreographers and musicians) and more particular claims for, for example research‐based narrative fiction, which is treated somewhat sceptically.

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论创意艺术媒介对教育研究的（再）表现

本文力图取消和审查一些有关艺术，或更具体地说，创意艺术在教育研究中的作用的相关主张。它考虑并评估了可以将艺术创造力本身视为基于研究的方法，或者本身就是一种可以声称是研究的探究形式。这样的说法是完全合理的，尽管它们可能将艺术创造力推向并非所有艺术家都会欣赏的特定模式。艺术作品也可以构成数据，传达有关特定环境或事件的信息，以及供观察者或研究者解释的标志和符号。关于艺术可以用来代表的主张 教育实践，政策或经验会得到最充分的对待，这就需要考虑一般性主张（这与许多艺术家，编舞家和音乐家的野心背道而驰），更具体地考虑例如基于研究的叙事小说，被怀疑地对待。