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Understanding children's educational experiences through image based research

  • Anna Graham
    ,
  • Rosemary Kilpatrick
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Abstract

Contemporary social science research is increasingly focusing on the need to research the lives of individuals, especially children, from their own perspectives. Studies seek to capture and make visible the diversity of children’s lives, but this requires that researchers explore methodologies that enable participants to tell their own stories. In recent years, the growing sense of urgency to uncover the realities of children’s worlds (Christensen and James 2000), has been accompanied by the growing recognition of the need to fully engage the child in any research process that involves them (Green and Hogan 2007). This has been paralleled by a renewed interest in visual ethnography (Banks 2001), prompting second editions of certain key texts such as those of Pink (2007) and Rose (2007). Clearly, visual methodologies allow researchers the possibility to enter children’s worlds in very immediate, yet creative ways using techniques such as drawings (Kilkelly et al. 2004), video diaries (Haw 2008) and photography (Ewald and Lightfoot 2001).

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Research Output:
Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding
Chapter
 Peer-review

Original language

English

Pages from-to (Number of pages)

Pages 89-106

Publication milestones

  • Published - 01/01/2010

Publication status

Published - 01/01/2010

Publisher

Routledge, United States, United Kingdom

ISBN (Print)

9780203876305

Publication IDs

  • handle.net: 10547/225981
  • Scopus: 84876960233

Host publication title

Ethnography in social science practice

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