This book makes a case for the usefulness of visual research methods for advancing a social justice agenda in education. The author aims to provide education researchers with a wide range of qualitative visual research tools to invoke different stories, voices, embodiments, and experiences of individuals from marginalized communities; to advance emancipatory research projects; to embrace interdisciplinary knowledge-building; and to counter-narrate Western forms of knowledge, cultures, and values for the reimagining of education for social change. It draws attention to the importance of visual methods in today’s neoliberal landscape of education to speak back to mainstream research and practices, especially when research participants lack words to describe, express, and represent what it means to be impacted by oppression and marginalization.
Author(s): Laura Azzarito
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Year: 2023
Language: English
Pages: 176
City: Cham
Contents
List of Figures
Chapter 1: Visual Methods for Social Justice in Education
References
Chapter 2: “Reimagining Education” in the Current Neoliberal Era: Creative Visual Methods for Social Change
Disturbing Neoliberal Governmentality: Beyond “Urban Schools” as “Data Plantations”
Inquiry Paradigms: from Positivism to Constructivism to a “Visual Turn” Within Critical, Participatory, Cooperative Research Paradigms
Positivism/Post-positivism
Interpretative/Constructivist
Beyond Words: A “Visual Turn” Within Critical Theory and Participatory/Cooperative Paradigms
“Other” Ways of Seeing Education: Beyond Words-Driven Qualitative Research
References
Chapter 3: Entanglement: Theory, Visual Methodology, and Intersectionality
Entanglement of Theory and Visual Methodology
Intersectionality: Storytelling and Counter-Visualities
References
Chapter 4: Photo-Elicitation to Amplify and Elevate the Voices of Research Participants
A Brief History
From Classic Photo-Elicitation to “Reflexive Photography” and “Auto-Driven Photo-Elicitation”
Photo-Elicitation: Grounding the Voices of Participants from Minoritized Groups in Their Own Cultural Knowledge and Contexts
Photo-Elicitation to Create “Visual Encounters” in Education: “Can the Subaltern Speak?”
References
Chapter 5: Participatory Visual Research for Community Empowerment and Social Change: Photovoice, Visual Diary, Photojournalism, and Fotonovela
Empowerment, Ownership, and Imagination for Social Change
Photo Diary, Video Diary, Photojournalism, Photovoice, and Fotonovela
Participatory Visual Methods for Humanizing Research
References
Chapter 6: Visual Ethnography of Decolonization from “Salvage Ethnography” to the “Ethnographic Turn”
Toward More Embodied and Multisensory Visual Ethnography for Cultural Transformation
“Collaborative Seeing” with Hard-to-Reach Communities
Cultural Probes to Decolonize Context and Culture
References
Chapter 7: Drawing as a Research Tool of Child Empowerment
The New Paradigm of Childhood
From Adult-Centric Methodologies to Child-Centered Methodologies: Drawing
Cautions and Limitations
References
Chapter 8: Dismantling “Remain in Mexico” at the Crossroads: Intersectionality, Counter-Story, and Un Nuevo Mundo Art Exhibition
But You Don’t Look Mexican (Latina & Jewish): Intersectionality Lens
A Counter-Story of Migration: Un Nuevo Mundo
References
Chapter 9: Visual Research Ethics: Dilemmas, Judgment, and Ethics of Care
Visual Ethics: Key Principles and Guidelines
Key Issues in Visual Ethics
A Situated Approach to Visual Research Ethics
References
Chapter 10: Conclusion
Index
