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University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Life Excavation Through the Imaginarium: An Emancipatory Model of Arts -Based Inquiry

Abstract

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The findings from the shared self-inquiry are synthesized into a reflective arts-based pedagogy, a visual inquiry journal called the Imaginarium. This model guides the self-inquiry of relevant themes of human concern using queries rooted in lived experience and cultural inquiry. Documented by visual expression, reflective writing, visual culture collage, and performance, the method facilitates empathic dialogue as a means to excavate embedded perceptions, and to heighten self-awareness and social responsibility. Three models are provided that guide pre-service students, change-agents, and recovery groups into arts-based encounters of deep reflection, and active critical investigation.

Degree

thesis:*
Name thesis:degree_name
Ph.D.
Level thesis:degree_level
Dissertation
Discipline thesis:degree_discipline
Art Education
Grantor
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Year dc:date
2015

Author and committee

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Author dc:creator
  • Rohloff, Rebecca Plummer
Contributors dc:contributor
  • Delacruz, Elizabeth M.

Subjects

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Rights

Language dc:language
eng

Identifiers

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Identifier
(MiAaPQ)AAI3337898
OAI identifier oai:identifier
oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/83064

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www.ideals.illinois.edu/oai-pmh
Last updated
2026-07-22
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citation

Rohloff, Rebecca Plummer. Life Excavation Through the Imaginarium: An Emancipatory Model of Arts -Based Inquiry. Dissertation thesis, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/2142/83064